I am unhappy to inform you that David Hyatt sneaked in* a change to the
default pref so that /favicon.ico is now retrieved by default, see bug
109843 (but please comment here). This is contrary to what he previously
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108823#c14> said to do.
*"sneaked in", because
* not announced in any relevant bugs or discussion
(although the bug changes the behaviour recently discussed there)
* bug intentionally filed in the wrong module
* bug opened/closed within 10 minutes
The only thing irritating me is that Brendan said:
> The consensus among mozilla.org staff is that it's ok for this pref to
> be on by
> default, at least until we get a storm of protests from webmasters (we
> may not).
See also bug 108825.
Hyatt also refused a patch for a UI pref to turn this rude behaviour
off. Not that such a UI pref would help any, if turned on by default...
To prevent further takeovers, I'd like to see the /favicon.ico code
completely removed from the tree, leaving only <link>. The compromise of
a hidden pref with default off obviously didn't work.
