Jesse Ruderman wrote:

> 
> FAVICON.ICO
> 
> Bug 109843: 14 minutes from filing to checkin.
> 
> Mozilla now automatically attempts to retrieve "favicon.ico" the first time
> a user visits a site, effectively making it impossible for sites to opt out
> of the site-icon feature.  

And if the favicon.ico doesn't exists it may lead to hang Mozilla:

Bug 111830
   freeze/hang when retrieving malformed response for GET /favicon.ico


This is a *very good reason* to disable this so-called feature.


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