916745 - Firefox uses a low resolution favicon when adding shortcut to the home screen on Android.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 826400

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Theme and Visual Design, defect)

Description

[Walter]

Attachment: An example of Firefox's behavior - identical to the link in the expected results.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130814063812

Steps to reproduce:

Long-pressed on URL bar to bring up menu while on a webpage, and clicked "Add to home screen".

2012 Nexus 7 running android 4.3.


Actual results:

A low resolution icon was added to the homescreen.


Expected results:

A high resolution icon should have been added to the home screen.

An example I made on imgur: http://imgur.com/JbBbg6g

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I believe this is a dupe of bug 826400; we should investigate looking into higher-res icons for home-screen shortcuts.

Comment 2

[Dimas]

It still happens with Firefox Beta 50 :-(
Screenshot of two added pages with low resolution icons: https://goo.gl/photos/A3nLVFiJrWPXWvCKA

Comment 3

[Andrzej Hunt :ahunt]

(In reply to Dimas from comment #2)
> It still happens with Firefox Beta 50 :-(
> Screenshot of two added pages with low resolution icons:
> https://goo.gl/photos/A3nLVFiJrWPXWvCKA

See bug 1245549, affects facebook.com on tablets but not phones - can't be reproduced on an N6P (since facebook redirects to m.facebook.com)