I noticed a small but somewhat annoying bug involving site icons/favicons behavior on Seamonkey (it does not seem to happen in Firefox, but then I don't use Firefox as much, so it *might* just have slipped by):
The precedence order for saving the site icons on the Places database seems to be inverted. First, some background: site icons/favicons can be loaded in two ways. The preferred way is by means of a <META> element in the page <head>, pointing to a specific file. The other way is by looking at the root of the server for a file named favicon.ico. Now, I understand that the second method is considered bad for several reasons, but websites still use it. Mozilla browsers allow the user to disable the /favicon.ico method by means of the browser.chrome.favicons preference, or the whole site icons feature by the browser.chrome.site_icons. Here's the thing: some sites (like Wikia) have different icons depending on the method you use to fetch it. If the browser understands the <meta> element, it gets a customized icon for that particular wiki. If it is an old browser which does not understand it, or if there is no custom icon available, it can also fetch the /favicon.ico file, which is a generic Wikia "W". Now, I have been noticing the following behavior: - If the browser.chrome.favicons option is set to FALSE, Seamonkey fetches correctly the customized wiki icon. - However, if it is set to TRUE, it will fetch the /favicon.ico, DESPITE there being a custom icon available, pointed at from the pages <meta> tag. It seems to me that Seamonkey is processing those in the wrong order -- it is trying /favicon.ico first and the header method only if browser.chrome.favicons is disabled. The damned part is that this happens only in a few sites. MOST Wikia wikis I have bookmarked behave normally. Only a few display this behavior. Wikia does not give users a lot of latitude in setting up this feature, so I can't imagine what makes one site behave differently from another. So... anybody else has noticed similar behavior? -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my HOLMES IV. *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.1 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
