Bug#648145: iceweasel: displays dotted square instead of favicon for some websites

[Sven Joachim]

On 2011-11-09 08:42 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 08:03:29AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Package: iceweasel
>> Version: 8.0-1
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> On some (but not all) websites, iceweasel does not display the favicon,
>> but rather an empty dotted square.  For instance, bugs.debian.org shows
>> this problem.
>
> That's what it does for sites without a favicon. Basically, the default
> favicon changed.

I see.  How anyone can find the new default favicon "beautiful"¹ is
beyond me, but this can be said about many Firefox default settings
these days. :-/  Looks I'll have to hack userChrome.css² to alleviate
that problem.

For some reason I don't remember, I also had set browser.chrome.favicons
to false.  Changing that to true gives the favicon back on
bugs.debian.org.

Thanks for the fast answer, and for all the work you have put into
Iceweasel.

Cheers,
       Sven


¹ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648668#c0
² https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691989