323998 - favicons in tab bar often look ugly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 310630

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Description

[Michael Stillwell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051229 Camino/1.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051229 Camino/1.0b2

The favicons as displayed in the tab bar are scaled to 15x15 (from 16x16), and consequently often look ugly.  This is more apparent on sites where text appears in the favicon.  The screenshot (magnifified 2x) is of megnut.com; another site is http://news.bbc.co.uk/--the "BBC" text is readable at 16x16, but not at 15x15.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Michael Stillwell]

Attachment: shows effect of scaling icons from 16x16 to 15x15 in tab bar (2x magnification)

See comment 1.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I swear this is a dupe. Whatever bug we had where the favicon looked different in the location bar than in the tab... I can't seem to find it though.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Right, so the reason this happens is because the favicon in the tab bar is 1 to 2 px smaller than the one in the location bar. See bug 310630 comment 10 (and 11) (that's also the bug I was thinking about).

Comment 4

[Michael Stillwell]

Sorry, this is a dupe, closing.  I even found that bug yesterday but somehow decided it was unrelated...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 310630 ***