761735 - Live Bookmarks no longer shows favicons

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[David F. Skoll]

Attachment: Screenshot of Firefox 13 live bookmark

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Build ID: 20120601045813

Steps to reproduce:

Upgraded to Firefox 13


Actual results:

The Live Bookmarks menu no longer shows favicons for bookmarked sites.


Expected results:

In Firefox <= 12, each entry in a Live Bookmarks menu showed a favicon for the site.  In Firefox 13, it shows a generic grey RSS icon.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

working as intended, the icon changes based on the fact the item is read (grey) or unread (glowing orange).

Comment 2

[David F. Skoll]

Yuck!  That's not my use-case for live bookmarks at all.  I use Rubric
(http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Rubric-0.151/lib/Rubric.pm) to
centralize my bookmarks and have a live bookmark so I can get at my
bookmarks anywhere.  I don't care about "read/unread" status at all; I
do care about favicons.

Any chance of restoring the old behavior or at least making it optional?

Regards,

David.

Comment 3

[David F. Skoll]

Oh... and I just noticed that "Open All in Tabs" is greyed out.
That was another killer feature for me... is it gone now?

Regards,

David.

Comment 4

[masterx244]

@#3: This should be an separate bug report because it has no connection to this one(Favicons vs open all itabs)

Comment 5

[Mary Arnold]

The old behavior (at least for me) was to show the favicon when a site had been read, and a RSS icon otherwise (if my memory is correct...). That was good. It basically look just nicer.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to Mary Arnold from comment #5)
> The old behavior (at least for me) was to show the favicon when a site had
> been read, and a RSS icon otherwise (if my memory is correct...). That was
> good. It basically look just nicer.

The read/unread functionality didn't change, it was improved instead.  Not sure about what is "nicer" since it's a quite subjective thing.  Personally I think the new look is cleaner and less likely to show the wrong icon for a feed.

The use-case in comment 2 is a bit exotic, would be better to use a proper feed reader for those needs, Firefox has never been intended to be one (we just preview feeds, as one of the many web formats).
So, I don't think we are going back to old icons, the benefits are limited and the complication is much higher (no, they were not working properly in the first place).

Comment 7

[David F. Skoll]

Sorry, but it's broken AFAIK.  The inability to "Open All in Tabs"
is a real show-stopper and the inability to quickly recognize my
bookmarks based of favicon is very, very annoying.

I have to say I'm very disappointed in your attitude.  If breaking
features that used to work results in a WONTFIX bug, then I guess
I need to have a closer look at Chrome.

FF13 is a big regression, IMO.

Comment 8

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to David F. Skoll from comment #7)
> Sorry, but it's broken AFAIK.  The inability to "Open All in Tabs"
> is a real show-stopper and the inability to quickly recognize my
> bookmarks based of favicon is very, very annoying.

The former is not this bug, the latter is wontfix, as I tried to explain.  I don't have any negative attitude, I evaluated your feedback, and replied as positively as I could, but your use-case is currently not a priority. Sorry.

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Open all in tabs is bug 730829.