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Bookmarks don't show favicons until clicked

Bug #120720 reported by Arcadio Rubio García
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Firefox does not store the icon of a bookmark (favicon) if the URL of the bookmark and the page differ on an ending backslash.

For example, if I have bookmarked http://www.wikipedia.org I will never get the Wikipedia icon in the bookmark.

However, if I have bookmarked http://www.wikipedia.org/ (note the ending slash), Firefox stores the icon in the bookmark.

However, the icon does become visible once the bookmark has been clicked (As of 2.x)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 16 17:39:29 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.4+1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux acer-aspire 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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In , Mike Connor (mconnor) wrote :

this is a duplicate, search on "favicon" to find the original.

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In , Peasnow (peasnow) wrote :

Searched the database for the similar ones. It is a kind of different problem
from the previous ones. While others says wrong favicons or icon lost, this one
refers to blank-sheet icon first, then refresh(bring up the page with another
browser) to get the desired one.

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In , Jruderman (jruderman) wrote :

I searched for 'bookmark icon firefox' and didn't find a dup, so confirming.

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In , Jruderman (jruderman) wrote :

I can reproduce on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040327 Firefox/0.8.0+

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In , Vladimir Vukicevic (vvuk) wrote :

-> me; especially annoying is when you drag a site's favicon down to the
bookmarks toolbar, only for it to not get a favicon there.

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In , P-silva (p-silva) wrote :

I'm having the same problem with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7)
Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

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In , Supernova00 (supernova00) wrote :

everytime i add a bookmark vai drag and drop, Bookmarks->Bookmark this page or
right clicking on a link to add it...no favicon is saved with the bookmark.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040927
Firefox/0.10

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In , Mozilla-mystile (mozilla-mystile) wrote :

I'm seeing this on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001
Firefox/0.10.1

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In , Bugzilla-steffenbanhardt (bugzilla-steffenbanhardt) wrote :

same problem here with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-de; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

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In , Peter-vanderwoude (peter-vanderwoude) wrote :

OS->All

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In , Philringnalda (philringnalda) wrote :

*** Bug 275714 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Jo-hermans (jo-hermans) wrote :

*** Bug 289424 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Philringnalda (philringnalda) wrote :

*** Bug 311727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Ria-klaassen (ria-klaassen) wrote :

*** Bug 332504 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Supernova00 (supernova00) wrote :

WFM in builds with places. Mark as INVALID or FIXED?

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In , Peter-vanderwoude (peter-vanderwoude) wrote :

(In reply to comment #15)
> WFM in builds with places. Mark as INVALID or FIXED?
>

Defenitly NOT WFM
using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060416 Firefox/3.0a1 ID:2006041701 [cairo]

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In , Supernova00 (supernova00) wrote :

Peter when doesn't it work, I tried CTRL+D and bookmarks->bookmark this page, and both worked fine. Can't try right click on link->bookmark this link since it seems broken.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060416 Firefox/3.0a1 (cairo build)

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In , Supernova00 (supernova00) wrote :

Also WFM via the star button or whatever its called now

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In , Peter-vanderwoude (peter-vanderwoude) wrote :

repro:
Open a link from a page and bookmark it (doesn't matter how).
Open the bookmarks menu (or Places) and notice there's just the default icon
The icon is only added if you open the bookmarked page from the bookmark itself.

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In , Supernova00 (supernova00) wrote :

Peter: still WFM, no matter how I add the bookmark the icon is always saved. No default blank icon.

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In , Steve-england (steve-england) wrote :

*** Bug 346365 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Stephen Chu (stephen-ju-ju) wrote :

*** Bug 347771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Steve-england (steve-england) wrote :

*** Bug 349878 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Mozilla-jackieliu (mozilla-jackieliu) wrote :

I can reproduce this in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060823 BonEcho/2.0b2, even with Live Bookmarks. Doesn't this bug cover the same thing for Live Bookmarks?

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In , Brian-salomaki (brian-salomaki) wrote :

This is still present in Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1. It's not terribly inconvenient, but it seems like it should be fixable given that the favicon is already loaded in the address bar and on the title of the tab. Weird that it works for Kurt though and not other people using 3.0 alphas.

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In , Supernova00 (supernova00) wrote :

It worked while Places was enabled. Doesn't work any longer though. Should work again once Places is re enabled.

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In , Dtownsend (dtownsend) wrote :

*** Bug 372817 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Dtownsend (dtownsend) wrote :

*** Bug 375955 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Dtownsend (dtownsend) wrote :

*** Bug 375962 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Jakub Narębski (jnareb) wrote :

Confirmed with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; pl; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

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In , Tbertels+bugzilla (tbertels+bugzilla) wrote :

The "reproduced/confirmed" comments are only needed when a bug is in the unconfirmed state.
It is not the case here, this bug is perfectly reproducible and only fixed for now on trunk builds when/where Places is enabled.

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Arcadio Rubio García (arcadiorubiogarcia) wrote : Bookmark image icons

Binary package hint: firefox

Firefox does not store the icon of a bookmark if the URL of the bookmark and the page differ on an ending backslash.

For example, if I have bookmarked http://www.wikipedia.org I will never get the Wikipedia icon in the bookmark.

However, if I have bookmarked http://www.wikipedia.org/ (note the ending slash), Firefox stores the icon in the bookmark.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 16 17:39:29 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.4+1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux acer-aspire 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Arcadio Rubio García (arcadiorubiogarcia) wrote :
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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

confirmed for Feisty

Changed in firefox:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9) wrote :

Not sure if this is a real bug. Once you click the icon, it will go to the page and recreate the entry.

Changed in firefox:
assignee: nobody → mozilla-bugs
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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

No it doesn't, you have to manually add a bookmark without a trailing /

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

this needs an official tester, but then can go to evaluation/upstream-triage state.

Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

On the new releases of Firefox the bookmark icon does indeed become visible after clicking the bookmark, even when you add it manually.

I will edit the bug description to match this, as it is still a strange behaviour.

description: updated
Changed in firefox:
assignee: mozilla-bugs → nobody
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

this is almost certainly an upstream bug. Please try to find the equivalent bug in bugzilla.mozilla.org which probably already exists.

Thanks,

 - Alexander

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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

Bug sent upstream.

Surprisingly, I could not find an upstream report on Mozilla

Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito)
Changed in firefox:
assignee: nobody → mozilla-bugs
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → New
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

please don't post bugs upstream until the bug has the mt-postupstream tag ... bugzilla is pretty hard to search and often you miss already existing bugs. Further, please add mt-confirm tag after setting upstream url next time (e.g. not just removing tags), so we can confirm that its on track before moving it to "In Progress".

Thanks,

  - Alexander

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

we still want more triagers to look for other upstream bugs ... until then I will not confirm the upstream bug.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

please take a look at all bugs listed in the favicon tracking bug ... i am pretty sure that this bug is already dealt with.

The tracking bug is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120352

i am tempted to say that this bug is due to Bug 113430 – Various favicon caching problems

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In , Kevin Brosnan (kbrosnan) wrote :

*** Bug 393118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

Upstream bug marked as duplicate by Mozilla, changed tracker.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

well ... they just duped it to some related bug imo ... which is what happens when you just open a bug for which upstream already has plenty of variants filed ... please remember next time: upstream has already high load and we don't want to stress that any further.

so don't post a bug upstream unless our bug is tagged mt-postupstream

Thanks for your contribution,

 - Alexander

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

confirmed upstream -> In Progress for Ubuntu target.

Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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In , Tbertels+bugzilla (tbertels+bugzilla) wrote :

Now that Places is back in trunk (and will be in Firefox 3), I think we can mark this WFM.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007092904 Minefield/3.0a9pre

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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bihonline (bihonline) wrote :

Favicon.ico obviously not being downloaded/saved when bookmarked, until next load.
What happened to this bug? I still have the problem.

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Arcadio Rubio García (arcadiorubiogarcia) wrote : Re: [Bug 120720] Re: Bookmarks don't show favicons until clicked

I think it has been solved in Firefox 3.0. Note it's still in Release
Candidate status.

El 14/06/2008, a las 12:26, bihonline escribió:

> Favicon.ico obviously not being downloaded/saved when bookmarked,
> until next load.
> What happened to this bug? I still have the problem.
>
> --
> Bookmarks don't show favicons until clicked
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120720
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.

Alexander Sack (asac)
Changed in firefox:
status: In Progress → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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In , Removed by request (removed3425744) wrote :

I'm using Firefox 10.0 Beta 2 and the bug still exists since a few major versions.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Add this site to your bookmarks (if already delete the entry first).
2. Open your bookmark list and look at the favicon of the new entry.

The favicon is the default dashed square but the symbol should be the green bug of this site. A workaround is to click on the bookmark entry and the favicon will be downloaded and stored automatically. But the favicon should already be stored if the bookmark is created.

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In , Mak77 (mak77) wrote :

(In reply to sworddragon2 from comment #34)
> I'm using Firefox 10.0 Beta 2 and the bug still exists since a few major
> versions.

You should have filed a separate bug, posting in a closed bug is not that much useful. Btw, did you already try Safe mode? http://support.mozilla.org/kb/safe+mode

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In , Removed by request (removed3425744) wrote :

> You should have filed a separate bug, posting in a closed bug is not that much useful.

I thought I can change the status and wanted to prevent that my new ticket gets the duplicate status. I have opened a new ticket now: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715336

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