308317 - favicon/custom icon is not shown on Bookmarks Toolbar buttons for Live Bookmarks (RSS feeds)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 304902

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Bradford Ritchie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

When a Live Bookmark is created and placed in the Bookmarks Toolbar, Firefox
displays the orange "Live Bookmark" icon in the toolbar instead of the
favicon/custom icon associated with the link (as specified in the ICON
attribute).  This requires the user to use text to distinguish Live Bookmarks
from one another.  To get the most mileage out of the Bookmarks Toolbar, I often
delete all text from the "Name:" field of a bookmark's properties so that the
bookmark takes up only the minimum amount of space and is identified by its icon
(this makes it more closely resemble the "quick launch" application toolbar on
the desktop).  Live Bookmarks should also use the favicon associated with the
site they point to, just like regular bookmarks do.  

Ideally, the little black arrow would also be removed.  :)

Note: Behavior is slightly different for Windows vs. Linux....
On Linux, all Live Bookmarks are displayed in the sidebar with the favicon
instead of the generic "folder" icon.  For those Live Bookmarks in the Bookmarks
Toolbar (ie. "Personal Toolbar Folder"), Live Bookmarks are displayed with their
favicon in the sidebar only.  The toolbar itself displays Live Bookmarks with
the orange "Live Bookmark" icon.

On Windows, all Live Bookmarks are displayed as regular folders in the sidebar,
but the orange "Live Bookmark" icon is used in the toolbar.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to a site offering an RSS feed (eg. http://www.theregister.co.uk/)
2. Click the orange "Live Bookmark" icon in the lower right corner of Firefox
and select "Subscribe to RSS feed".
3. When the "Add Bookmark" dialog appears, select "Bookmarks Tookbar Folder"
(Linux: "Personal Toolbar Folder") from the "Create in:" drop-down list, then
click OK.

Actual Results:  
The new Live Bookmark will be created on the Toolbar with the orange "Live
Bookmark" icon.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should display the Live Bookmark in the Toolbar (and ideally in the
sidebar as well) with the favicon associated with the site.  In the case of
Linux, the favicon is actually included in the ICON attribute of the Live
Bookmark link, but it is ignored when displaying the bookmark on the toolbar. 
In the case of Windows, the ICON attribute is not present at all for Live
Bookmarks, although manually editing bookmarks.html file and inserting the
missing ICON attribute (while Firefox is shutdown, of course) does not change
the behavior.

On Linux, I was using the default theme & profile with no extensions installed
(everything right out of the box).  On Windows, I have lots of extensions
installed (but no themes) and I did not try to reproduce this in any other
environment.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See Bug 304902.

Comment 2

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 304902 ***