allow setting favicon when creating discarded tabs
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(WebExtensions :: Frontend, enhancement, P3)
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(Reporter: mixedpuppy, Unassigned)
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(Blocks 4 open bugs)
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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Updated•6 years ago
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Lots of power users are struggling with switching to Firefox Quantum because of poor native tab management. Web Extensions can only do so much (compared to XUL/XPCOM addons). Having no favicon on discarded tabs makes it unbearable when one restores session with hundreds of tabs via extension.
Updated•6 years ago
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Updated•2 years ago
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Comment 5•1 year ago
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This is really important, please solve this asap.
I have many open tabs and due to a crash I had to restore the session with the TabSessionManager addon. There was an issue with TSM or TreeStyleTab (https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/3329) that made the restoration fail except when I stayed offline during restoration. This led to the favicons not loading for all the tabs while it should have simply loaded them from a local file. Session restoration while offline is just one of many examples of ways this can be a problem.
Retrieving favicons from websites during restoration would be a major privacy and server-load problem, so it's good that they're stored in a local file. There are probably problems that this file clears favicons when a session hasn't been opened for a while instead of keeping them and so on. However, this issue would be the larger first problem to solve. I don't know why this isn't done by default right from the start or is it intentional that they aren't loaded from the local database (why)? I think the importance of this issue should be raised.
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