332230 - Favicons not remembered

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, defect)

Description

[Jerry Nilson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060214 Camino/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060214 Camino/1.0

Perhaps the best feature for me in Camino vs. other browsers is that I could have more bookmarks in the Bookmark Toolbar, allowing instant access to more web sites as the favicons for the web sites are added and the only thing needed to identify a site, thus it's now enough with a single symbol for every bookmark in the toolbar, which is great! However, if a pahge is not visited regularly the favicons  disappear and the standard icon reappears, making it difficult to know what page this symbol might take you to! (I understand one would not want to save all favicons forever, but maybe the ones in the toolbar could be saved until the links are removed from that place?)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a link to the Bookmark toolbar and edit away the name.
2. Wait like 2 weeks and the favicon is gone.
3. You get confused... .

Actual Results:  
Favicon disappears after some time.

Expected Results:  
That the favicon does not disappear from the toolbar.

Kept the favicon until the bookmark was manually removed.

Comment 1

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

This is probably a dupe of Bug 282647 and/or Bug 299270.

Comment 2

[Jerry Nilson]

"This is probably a dupe of Bug 282647 and/or Bug 299270" -- the last one possibly... but the problem is not that it doesn't load the favicon, but that it disappears after some weeks not visiting the site -- at least that is what I believe happens ... .

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Comment 2 is expected behaviour. Favicons get pushed out of the cache if you don't visit the site often enough, as the cache is only of finite size.

This is probably INVALID, but I'll wait for some more discussion on IRC before marking it as such.

Comment 4

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

I'm fairly sure this is by design and as Chris said, should be marked INVALID.

Comment 5

[Jerry Nilson]

Well it would be a VERY good feature if favicons in the Bookmark bar stayed until manually altered, though ... .

Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

There are 2 things going on here:
1. the site icon cache expires entries after a certain amount of time.
2. if the favicon is set via a <link> tag, then that data is in the necko cache,
   and may get expunged after a while, or after a crash.

Comment 7

[Jerry Nilson]

ok

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

INVALID per previous comments.