Closed Bug 290772 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Favicon.ico taken from site applied to another

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271359

People

(Reporter: sean, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

This is a little bit strange, but I have a site with no favicon.ico defined and
I frequent a related site which does have the favicon.ico. If I navigate around
just right, I can make my site appear with the other site's favicon.ico in the
quick links toolbar. I imagine that some competitors wouldn't want to see this
happen. What's causing it? I'm running FF1.03, but I've seen this issue since 1.01.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to: http://forums.probetalk.com/
2. Add the site to the quick links toolbar beneath the location bar
3. Click around the site until the favicon.ico shows up on the toolbar.
4. Browse to: http://www.probeparts.com/
5. Add the site to the quick links toolbar beneath the location bar
6. Click the first quick link to forums.probetalk.com
7. Click the second quick link to www.probeparts.com

Actual Results:  
Presto-change-o: the probeparts.com favicon.ico suddenly changes to the icon of
probetalk.com. Probeparts.com has no favicon.ico file defined. The icon
appearing in Firefox is being "borrowed" from the probetalk.com site.


Expected Results:  
The icon for probeparts.com should remain unchanged as a default icon; despite
the second level domain names starting with the first five characters, the two
sites are unrelated and should not share the icon.
Duplicate of/related to bug 271359?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271359 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Assignee: vladimir+bm → nobody
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
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