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
