Lucas MacBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02 Jan 2002: 

> DeMoN LaG wrote:
> 
>> Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01 Jan 2002: 
>> 
>>>W98SE  This happens to me too.  Sometimes the icons will hang
>>>around for a couple of days, even after rebooting, and sometimes
>>>they disappear after quitting Moz and immediatley restarting.
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> I believe the favicons still respect the expiration date the
>> server sends.  ie, the server says "This is a picture,
>> favicon.ico, expunge it from the cache in 2 hours".  The correct
>> procedure would be to ignore that, but I believe Mozilla still
>> respects it and thus the icons disappear 
>> 
>> 
> 
> I don't use the personal toolbar, as I'd rather just have the extra
> screen real estate, but I have noticed that when I empty my cache
> the favicons in my bookmarks are all gone. Seems like a waste of
> bandwidth to keep downloading them, even though it's a small file.
> I'd rather have an option to keep them elsewhere so they're
> persistent. The point is to make it easy to find your bookmarks,
> but if they keep reverting to the default, it defeats the purpose.
> 

It is pointless to keep downloading them.  There is, I believe, an open 
bug for this issue

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