GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 578575
Most Favicons in Epiphany Not Appearing
Last modified: 2009-12-06 17:03:11 UTC
Please describe the problem: Most websites (such as Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc.) have no favicon shown in either the bookmarks menu or the address bar. This problem is in no way changed by the favicon fallback plugin. Some websites, though, such as GNOME-Look and Launchpad, have favicons that do show up. I've noticed this bug only in the 2.26 version of Epiphany. Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to http://www.google.com/ 2. Look at address bar. 3. Oh look, no favicon! Actual results: No favicon appears Expected results: Same Does this happen every time? Always Other information:
Same bug here, also on Epiphany-Webkit 2.27.1.
I've been experiencing the same thing. Once I clear my cache, most of my favicons disappear. However, I found a trick. If you close epiphany and then open up ~/.gnome2/epiphany/ephy-favicon-cache.xml and change all the lines as follows: <property id="6" value_type="gboolean">1</property> <property id="7" value_type="gint">61</property> to <property id="6" value_type="gboolean">0</property> <property id="7" value_type="gint">60</property> Then restart epiphany, all the favicons will come back. Not sure why this works, but it is possible that these settings are not saved or set properly during the initial loading. Also, as another possible probem source, if you look at the icons under ~/.gnome2/epiphany/favicon_cache, the ones that do work such as Launchpad or GNOME appear to be PNG formatted files, while the others are ICO formatted. I'm not sure why this would make a difference, but it appears that all of the ICOs do not work, bu the PNGs do. Perhaps setting those properties tricks epiphany into thinking the ICOs are PNGs (or some other acceptable format) and that's why they begin to work.
Ugh. I made a mistake above. It should be: <property id="6" value_type="gboolean">0</property> <property id="7" value_type="gint">61</property> to <property id="6" value_type="gboolean">1</property> <property id="7" value_type="gint">60</property>
Workaround seem to be working on some sites, not all.
Created attachment 135109 [details] [review] Check for new icon mimetype I think the problem is that the mimetype database was updated to report icons as "image/vnd.microsoft.icon" instead of "image/x-ico". The attached patch adds a check for the former and it appears to be working for me.
Created attachment 135110 [details] [review] Check for new icon mimetype I think the problem is that the mimetype database was updated to report icons as "image/vnd.microsoft.icon" instead of "image/x-ico". The attached patch adds a check for the former and it appears to be working for me.
I have pushed this to master (f016ecc3cba44113df9641d6a3dceab9a14751ec), but keep in mind that favicons are not working at the moment with ephy/webkit. Thanks!