441130 - FF3 destroys user-selected favicons

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 326896

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ray]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

FF3 replaces favicons using the website's favicon instead of the ones I have selected. My bookmarks toolbar contains 32 icons on a single line. No text, just icons.  Four of these are different Yahoo sites that I previously set with 4 different icons to know which was which.  FF3 changed all 4 of them to the same Yahoo icon. It also replaced many other icons in my toolbar with icons that I no longer recognize. Very inconvenient. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Harvest a favicon by bookmarking a webpage that uses a favicon
2.Click on properties of this new bookmark and change the location to another web address.
3.FF3 replaces my chosen favicon with it's own and if there is a problem loading page it will replace the favicon in bookmarks with a yellow warning triangle.



Allow an option for advanced users to shut off FF3's favicon interference. Advanced users don't need this type of security handholding.