Bug#550808: iceweasel: favicons not displayed in bookmarks menu

[Mike Hommey]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:18:06PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.0.14-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The favicons for my bookmark entries have recently stopped being
> displayed in the bookmarks menu.
> 
> Iceweasel does know about the favicons, they appear against the bookmark
> entries in the "Organise Bookmarks" dialog box, and they show against
> the urls in the location bar.  It's only in the Bookmarks menu that
> they do not appear.
> 
> They still displayed until recently, though I'm not certain if their
> disappearance came with 3.0.14-1, or perhaps after that (would another
> library affect the favicon behaviour?) 
> 
> There are old bugs on this kind of problem logged against Firefox on
> Mac, e.g. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=215404,
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/464837,
> though it wouldn't make too much sense if that's the same bug I'm
> seeing here.

I can't reproduce this, and have had favicons in my bookmarks for a long
time without any problem. Did it eventually fix itself for you or is
that still an issue ?

Cheers,

Mike