267323 - Favicon loads at every pageview

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260500

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Håkon Nessjøen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

At every pageview, even on images, FireFox tries to open /favicon.ico.
This is messing up user tracking on websites, and hitcounts.
On our CMS, the admin can see the last file/page viewed. But this is always
"/favicon.ico" if the user uses firefox.

I know there is a META tag to tell the browser when there is a favicon.ico file
present. Why not only download/show the favicon when this is present in html? Or
when a user actually adds a bookmark, it's okay that it tries /favico.ico even
if it doesn't say so in HTML. But at every pageview, and fileview is too much I
think.

If I reload a page 4 times.. The log counts 8 hits.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a website of your own
2. Read the accesslog for your site.


Actual Results:  
Firefox attempts to download /favico.ico every pageview. And every time you
reload a page.

Expected Results:  
Only download /favico.ico if the website implies such. Or at max only try once
per domain, if not mentioned in html.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

This should have been fixed by bug 262262. Reporter, does it still occur with
Firefox RC1 ?

>Why not only download/show the favicon when this is present in html?
Microsoft IE is the browser that started all this ...

Comment 2

[Håkon Nessjøen]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This should have been fixed by bug 262262. Reporter, does it still occur with
> Firefox RC1 ?
> 
> >Why not only download/show the favicon when this is present in html?
> Microsoft IE is the browser that started all this ...

I think bug 262262 is more about switching throught tab's, not reloading a page,
or clicking a link.

As I said, FireFox should only try to download /favicon.ico max once per hostname.

I use "Version 1.0 Preview Release" of Firefox.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260500 ***