577447 - Favicon from last visited page remains active for new visited page with no favicon associated in windows taskbar

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Maniac Vlad Florin (:vladmaniac)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100707 Minefield/4.0b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100707 Minefield/4.0b2pre

New visited page should be one with no favicon associated. Favicon from last visited page has state retention in windows taskbar untill a new page with custom favicon is loaded in current tab. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit http://people.mozilla.org/~jmaher/wifi.html or any site with no custom favicon. 
2.In the same tab, load a page with custom favicon (e.g. www.cnn.com)
3.Hit back button 
4.Inspect your browser window in windows taskbar. 
Actual Results:  
Favicon from 2nd loaded page remains active for the previous URL with no custim favicon

Expected Results:  
Browser window/tab should be updated in windows taskbar with the default icon for the page with no custom favicon. 

Note: Please make sure first loaded page should be one with no favicon attached. Also check out the attachment(screenshot)

Comment 1

[Maniac Vlad Florin (:vladmaniac)]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using a pre-release version of Firefox 4. Now that Firefox 4.0.1 final has been released, can you please update and retest your bug? A fresh profile would be a good starting place to test, 
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles. If you continue to see the issue, can you please update this bug with your results?

Filter: firefox4prebugsunco

Comment 3

[Shriram (irc: Mavericks)]

(In reply to Maniac Vlad Florin (:vladmaniac) from comment #1)
> Created attachment 456406 [details]
> screenshot

Is this still valid bug ?