825405 - tab.favicon not applied

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Loic Duros]

When using tabs.open(), on my machine no favicon is applied/displayed when using an icon url or a local icon (with data.url), e.g.:
tabs.open({url: data.url('settings.html'),
           favicon: data.url('images/favicon')});

or:
tabs.open({url: data.url('settings.html'),
           favicon: 'http://support.cdn.mozilla.net/media/img/favicon.ico'});

Maybe it's the same issue as bug 821536 with tab.title not reflected? >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=821536

Thanks,

Comment 1

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

According to the documentation <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/modules/sdk/tabs.html#open%28options%29>, 'favicon' is not one of the items you can set via tabs.open().

And accessing an existing tab object's favicon property is read-only.

Comment 2

[Loic Duros]

Sorry about that. I guess I should read the docs more carefully next time...

Comment 3

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

hmm maybe we should throw a warning