Synced tabs, bookmarks, and history entries don't have a favicon until the user re-visits that page again
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(Firefox :: Sync, enhancement, P2)
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(Reporter: jaime.bugzilla, Unassigned)
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(Blocks 1 open bug)
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(Whiteboard: [sync-engine-addition] p=0)
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Comment 67•5 years ago
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Is there any update on this feature enhancement? Obviously it is not critical but is a pesky annoyance for me. Like many people, I add frequently used site to the bookmark bar, remove their title and access them by favicon alone. I notice it has been open for 11 years!!
I have been using an extension called Checkmarks and running it periodically but am tiring of that. I would rather not switch from Firefox...
Comment 68•5 years ago
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I notice it has been open for 11 years!!
Wow, there are 80 people CC'd on this bug, and it looks like none of them are the current Sync UX person, so adding :rfeeley and :adavis for good measure.
That said, it doesn't seem like we ever resolved the tension between "too much storage space and bandwidth use" and "potential for privacy leaks" that has so far prevented a clear technical approach from emerging, and I don't think much has changed i that problem space, so it's still not clear to me how we'd move this forward.
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Thank you for your efforts at getting this moving again Ryan!
How is this accomplished in other browsers? This functionality is flawless in Google Chrome for example.
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Poking around in chrome://sync/
in Chrome shows a separate data type named "Favicon Images", which suggests that they actively sync the images themselves between devices. That's also my gut feel about how we'd solve it for Firefox, as we're likely to trade size for privacy.
I'm confident we could come up with an approach here. As this point I think it's mostly a prioritization decision of whether to work on this versus many other sync- and account-related issues.
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I recently tried to switch back to Firefox because Chrome has some issues that have been bugging me... the issue in this thread is significant for me because I like using bookmarks. Hard to believe this bug was reported 12 years ago and no solutions have been deployed... I have to sync my profile anyway, how could adding in these favicons be such a hard task? Can't we link it to FF Sync somehow to pull the current favicons for all the users bookmarked pages?
Hope this gets resolved!
Rusty
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Regarding tension between storage and privacy trade-offs, let's just allow people to disable fetching favicons, as mentioned in comment 60 above.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428378#c60
I'm specifically interested in the iOS app, since I connect to wifi at work, restaurants, etc. Whether or not my desktop client fetches icons isn't really a concern. But for mobile implementations of Firefox, the privacy leaks are more substantial, since we take our phones everywhere...
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Perhaps not a problem but good to be aware of is this article https://it.slashdot.org/story/21/02/09/1920256/browser-favicons-can-be-used-as-undeletable-supercookies-to-track-you-online
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Comment 76•4 years ago
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Why not give the users an option to backup the favicons themselves? The same way bookmarks can be exported or saved offline. This at least would give the users an option until you guys come up with a solution.
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Where are the favicons stored on the hard drive? We could manually back them up via the command line.
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Jeffrey: See https://ometer.com/preferences.html about the costs of yet another option, plus https://heyguys.cc/ :)
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Andre Klapper: thank you for this valuable comment.
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Please excuse the above reference; force of habit. I realize and respect the fact that there are women on here as well.
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Well, I went through all of my bookmarks each one by one to restore all of my favicons. I took my time and after a few days, I had all of them restored. I need to find a way to back them up in case I have to reinstall and recover my system again.
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There is a favicons.sqlite in your .mozilla/firefox/ directory.
It has the links to the favicon.ico files. I'm not sure how you correspond them to which URL. Maybe another developer with more knowledge of mozilla's storage schema can explain.
This is a good site to view sqlite files: https://inloop.github.io/sqlite-viewer/
You can drag your favicon sql file in there and see that it does a sql "SELECT * FROM 'moz_icons' ;" statement.
My favicon sql file is rather large -- 5MB so perhaps it is also storing the actual icons in that sqlite file. (?) Crazy that this bug is 13 years old. Maybe someone will make progress on a solution. I assume copying the file over to a new machine won't work?
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(In reply to Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly] from comment #70)
Poking around in
chrome://sync/
in Chrome shows a separate data type named "Favicon Images", which suggests that they actively sync the images themselves between devices. That's also my gut feel about how we'd solve it for Firefox, as we're likely to trade size for privacy.I'm confident we could come up with an approach here. As this point I think it's mostly a prioritization decision of whether to work on this versus many other sync- and account-related issues.
I don't mean to rush anyone, but at this point, 14 years down the line, wouldn't it be good for the team to sit down together and just make a decision on this once and for all?
Seems the bug is revived every couple years and then dies until the next person who has the willpower to report this comes along.
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I think that's a very valid point L. We talked this one over as a team and we don't think there's enough time and energy to fix it in the foreseeable future, so I'm going to close WONTFIX. Apologies to anyone who is experiencing this issue, but there's not a clear or simple path to fix it at this point.
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