David Hyatt wrote: >>> If you don't like the feature, you can turn it off from the >>> Appearance panel in prefs. As room clears up in the Navigator >>> prefs panel, the pref will probably migrate to that panel instead. >> >> Those who hate this feature only hates it because it automatically >> fetches favicon.ico from the server. That can not be turned off from >> the Appearance panel without also turning off page/site icons >> referred to by <link>s.
> > You can turn off the favicon fetch while leaving on the custom site > icons using <link> by editing your prefs.js file. I know that. But I don't dislike the automatic favicon fetching because it wastes my bandwidth. I dislike it because I think it's the wrong way to implement this feature. Sure, I could turn it off manually in my prefs.js, but what good would it do when 99.9% of all Mozilla users still has it enabled? It would still spam servers with the requests, it would still create problems for people who doesn't know about or doesn't want page icons but suddenly finds their ISP or hosting provider's icon in the URL bar. -- /Jonas
