Mike Koenecke wrote:

>>Absolutely! Don't think that we want to remove support for bookmark 
>>icons or page icons - they are great! What we are against is that 
>>Mozilla automatically requests the file "favicon.ico" from the server 
>>whenever you visit a new site. There is way (<link rel="icon"/>) to 
>>specify icons for pages, and Mozilla supports that as well, and that 
>>should NOT be removed.

 >

> Ah. In that case, I would think that the favicon.ico request process, since it
> seems to have generated so much criticism, should be off by default but
> available for activation by the user via the Preferences panel. In general, I
> wish all Mozilla preferences would be selectable through the panel, or at least
> locatable in a Help file.


No normal users would ever touch this option, so adding it to 
Preferences would just add confusion, IMO. Ideally, I wish that the 
auto-favicon-fetch code would be completely removed from Mozilla.

-- 
/Jonas


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