New favicon missing?

[mmcmonster]

I love the new favicon that shows up next to the URL for the forum. So much that I deleted my old link to the forum and created a new one to reload the favicon.

Unfortunately, it didn't work. Can anyone reproduce this in firefox on WinXP or Ubuntu Fiesty? Create a link in your bookmarks to http://ubuntuforums.org/. I end up with a generic blank favicon in my bookmarks. :-(

[Compyx]

I usually notice that a new favicon only shows up in Firefox after visiting the page a second time. I have no idea why, but that's how it works on my box (probably something to do with the browser's cache).

[mmcmonster]

Yeah, except that in this case, I've been trying for the last few days to get it to load. :-(

Anyone able to reproduce my problem? Or prove me wrong?

[rajeev1204]

ya its a known bug .

Turns out , the favicon for ubuntuforums is 24 kb and firefox restricts this to 16 kb .So u get a blank favicon.

If the forum admins are listening , can we have the favicon below 16 kb? :D


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/102848


Interestingly its the same for ubuntu.com

[olspookishmagus]

I had the same problem with these forums as well, did a search and come to the solutions which, for the sake of continuity and history, I copy-post here.

So, alternatively of waiting for a favicon of lesser filesize, you can install Favicon Picker 2 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3176) it's an extension that allows you to manually select favicons for your bookmarks. Use this to update these forums favicon to this favicon (http://ubuntuforums.org/favicon.ico).

Thanks to ImpelGD for posting this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2473732&postcount=3).