644468 - New Sync option doesn't transfer Bookmark Icons to added devices

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 428378

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[danielj23]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Summary:   Syncing from the sync server -> Bookmarks are created with blank the default white icon instead of the appropriate "favicon" the site sets.  Firefox should sync the icon with the bookmark.

I setup a sync account.  Added devices properly to multiple devices and forced them to sync.  The sync worked.  All devices received all appropriate sync data.  

On each device however, the bookmark appears correctly and the URL is correct, the problem is that the icon is the default white icon.  So now on the "synced" devices, I have a few hundred bookmarks that have the plain white bookmark icon, rather than the icon that gets set when you visit the page.  The problem is self correcting after you visit EACH of the bookmarks individually.  IE.  If I go to Gmail on the synced device, the icon appears now correctly on the synced bookmark.

Wouldn't it be more appropriate though if each "synced device", as the bookmark is received from the Sync server, receives the appropriate icon rather than set the default white bookmark icon?

Granted this involves more bandwidth usage and the sync would have to send/receive more data.

My bookmark toolbar is full of textless icons.  I use the image to know which bookmark I am clicking on.  IE.  Google's icon is distinguishable from Gmails icon.  After the sync, the icons were both plain white.  So imagine having an entire toolbar full of blank white icons.  

As I said, when I click the white icon, it takes me to the correct bookmark, and firefox automatically updates the bookmark's icon, but I have to manually go through each of the bookmarks to get this to occur.

All in all, the sync SHOULD include the icon for each bookmark.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Sync a device
2.  Wait for the sync to complete
3.  Notice how each bookmark's icon has defaulted to the white default bookmark icon.
Actual Results:  
Bookmarks that get synced don't show the appropriate bookmark favicon set by the website.

Expected Results:  
I expected that when the device syncing completed, all of my bookmarks would appear as they do from the device I initiated the sync from.  The bookmarks are retrieved, but the icons are blank.

The sync option should have sent not just the bookmark, but included the icon that is associated with that bookmark.