computer-centric curiosity

[krait]

Does anyone know why bookmark icons don't show for most of my bookmarks in Firefox? It's been this way for roughly forever, and I've never understood why! (In the bookmarks sidebar, when a folder is open? Maybe five of the thirty visible bookmarks will have an icon besides them, e.g. the AO3 or LJ icon... even though fifteen of the links go to AO3 or LJ. Most of them will be little blank spaces, outlined by a dotted box.)

It's kind of frustrating, when I'm trying to find a fic that I know was on AO3, to be unable to pick out AO3 links from the heap, but mostly I'm just really curious as to why so few of them show, and why it's so random - which ones show up and which don't changes all the time!

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I know it has to pull from the favicon for the site, but the exact mechanism of when it polls for the favicon, and why the favicon might disappear after it's been previously retrieved, are unknown to me. One really simple reason for it not being there would be if at the time it checked, the favicon did not get served to it (like if the server was being flaky), but I don't know how often that is.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/bookmark-favicon-changer/ sounds like it might be useful to you?

[krait]

That is the weirdest thing about it! My first thought, when I saw some weren't showing up, was that it had timed out, or the site wasn't giving that information; but it's doing it for some of them!

I will try clicking everything twice, systematically, just in case it's a case of me not being able to count to two, but given the scattered-ness of which ones show up, it just seems unlikely!

Still, might as well give it a try. :D