Support for IE-style 'favicons' next to bookmarks will shortly be added to Mozilla, as a result of bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32087
There are two ways for selecting the correct favicon 1) Using the icon specified in the relevant <LINK> tag in the header of the HTML page 2) If there is no link tag, then automatically trying favicon.ico I have no problem with the first method, since it only happens if the webpage author indends it to happen. However, if the webpage author has not thought about using favicon.ico then the second method will create a 404 on the server every time it is bookmarked (or possibly just visited, I'm not sure when the favicon is called for) and slow down web access. Since this is an eyecandy feature, I think we should only be using the LINK method. The argument that some sites will have to change too many pages should not be inportant, since any large site should have a method of changing the design on many pages at once (dreamweaver will do this) and on small sites it should be easy to do it manually. Please post your opinions in reply to this post, DO NOT post your opinions on this subject in the bug report mentioned above. Thanks, Ian Thomas. LemNet.com | QAtlantis.com
