477587 - Storage of favicons in bookmarks is inconsistant.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 411966

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[John Barberio]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5

When opening links in a bookmarked site into background tabs, the fav icon stored in the bookmark is overwritten with one from the background tabs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to http://belfrycomics.net/
2. Bookmark site.
2. Open a series of links to other sites with Fav Icons in background tabs.

Actual Results:  
Belfry Bookmark changes fav icon to that of one of the background tab sites.

Expected Results:  
Belfry Bookmark should retain fav icon for the Belfry site.

There are many other bugs raised about favicons, and they do appear to suggest that Places acts in an undefined manner when handling tabbed browsing. This further suggests that the code was carried over from before tabbed browsing, and made some single-window-single-site assumptions.

This bug, and others related to favicons may require total rewrite of favicon code to be tab-browsing safe.

Marking as Major as favicons are a semi-important web functionality, and it's a very visible bug to the user.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv