data: URLs shouldn't be stored in bookmarks.html for favicons that are bigger than a certain size (let's say 16k or so, though we should probably go much smaller than that -- 16k = uncompressed 32bpp 64x64).

related to bug 245631

some people use animated icons, they are larger than 16 kb (if not properly optimised)

patch in on aviary, trunk soon (once bookmarks stuff gets moved over) http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?module=AviaryBranchTinderbox&branch=AVIARY_1_0_20040515_BRANCH&cvsroot=/cvsroot&date=explicit&mindate=1090724100&maxdate=1090724640&who=vladimir%25pobox.com animated icons are a sticky issue; i've heard rumblings that people don't want them to animate at all (just freeze the first frame or something).

I agree .. we can go much smaller than that. Mozilla only shows favicons as 16 x 16 and the number of pixels in a 16 x 16 image is 256 meaning that there can only be 256 unique colors as well. So the max should be 8bpp 16x16. And animating favicon in the bookmarks menu could turn it into an animating hell of distractions .. Especially distracting would be animating favicons in the bookmark toolbar. The idea of saving only the first frame in the bookmarks is great , and perhaps should even extend this to freezing the favicon in the locationbar as well.

fixed branch/trunk; went with 16k. dealing with the animated icons issue is probably a separate bug, though I doubt it'll happen before 1.0.

*** Bug 260178 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 259350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

some favicons are larger than 16kb and rightly so for various reasons of a sites author. sites like zeldman.com has a favicon.ico which has multiple sets of icons inside it ranging from all different color sets to sizes and even winxp icons with alpha tansparancy layers. the maximum size of 16kb should be reconsidered. People think Firefox is broken when they come across a site like zeldman.com or alistapart.com and they bookmark it and see no favicon in thier bookmarks. [see bug 258867] the maximum should be the largest file size that one can make a legit non-animated icon. around at least 28kb

Why not leave it 8bpp 16x16, but save a resampled version / first frame rather than store the actual big / multiple / animated favicon ?

*** Bug 277674 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #9) I prepared a workaround extension for ICON-format favicons (not for animated favicons). See bug 175787 comment #43.

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

how has this been resolved? We still see this problem, see: https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/102848

ah ok ... its tracked in bug 258867