Favicon.ico and Netscape 7

is netcrap 7 misrequesting favicon.ico?

[webdevsf]

Hello,

I used to use favicon.ico requests in my log to determine how many people were putting my site in their favorites. However, I've noticed that Netscape 7 seems to have a bug where the same user is requesting favicon.ico on every page?! This makes this statistic almost completely invalid. Has anyone else seen this, and any ideas on what to do?

I suppose I could do distinct IPs for favicon.ico, but that is more work. :(

Thx

[Macguru]

Hi webdevsf,

Yes, Netscape, Mozilla, Galeon, and Konqueror are requesting this file on every page view(as far as I know).

Using favicon requests to determine how many people are putting some site in their favorites has never been very accurate since IE was storing it in cache files.

[HarryM]

I've noticed that Netscape 7 seems to have a bug where the same user is requesting favicon.ico on every page?!

I'm not sure if that's a bug or an improvement! :) I can't check as I haven't got NN7 available at the moment.

But as I understand it, favicons should not only show up in bookmarks, but should show in the browser address bar which means they are required for every page. So maybe NN7 is doing the correct thing.

However this is flaky in most browsers. Mine seems to work for a while (browsers and bookmarks), and then the favicon disappears. To get around this I have a link on all pages to my favicon, although I'm not sure it helps. <link rel="shortcut icon" href="..blah..blah/favicon.ico" />

[BjarneDM]

well, Mozilla has 52 active bugs involving favicon
3 major bugs
26 normal bugs
4 minor bugs
4 trivial bugs
15 requests for enhancements

try this: [bugzilla.mozilla.org...]
or [bugzilla.mozilla.org...] and enter favicon in the summary field

[c3oc3o]

So what?
That doesn't change that fetching favicon without bookmarking is intended behavior and certainly not a bug just because it's different from IEs behavior.

Having the icon in the tab bar helps a lot when you're browsing many sites at once.