914025 - Support SVG favicon format

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Favicon Handling, defect)

Description

[Chris Kitching [:ckitching]]

Favicons in SVG format are not supported. It would be nice to fix this.

I imagine Gecko has an SVG decoder hiding somewhere - some way the leverage this to decode Favicons would do the trick (One could envision a minor extension to the new Favicon caching system which would, when queried for a sized favicon, simply scales the SVG (Yay for vectors!)).
That, or it could convert SVGs to bitmaps and leverage the existing bitmap caching behaviour. This is may be simpler to implement and not substantially less performant.

Marking dependancy to prevent race conditions bitrotting patches.

Comment 1

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Does this depend on bug 366324 or is it a duplicate?

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Fennec's favicon handling is completely separate from desktop's. They're independent bugs.

Comment 3

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