Mozilla Bookmark sadness

[SethCall]

I noticed that in IE that some bookmarks (like this very webpage) have little icons next to their name in the favorites list... but mozilla does not have this.

So whats up guys? Is this just "how it is for now" or is their a way to make mozilla show an icon?

Thanks!

[rcjordan]

It's called a favicon [searchengineworld.com], and it's an IE browser feature only, I believe.

[rcjordan]

I take that back re IE-only. Take a look at this thread
[webmasterworld.com...]

[ergophobe]

The *real* Mozilla bookmark madness (at least on my system with 1.1b) is that the bookmark manager does not work if the browser is open, so you have to close the browser, manage the bookmarks, and then reopen the browser.

Tom

[SethCall]

well thanks for that clearing up of the issue:

[edited by: tedster at 3:38 am (utc) on Oct. 1, 2002]
[edit reason] keeping thread on topic [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

Netscape 7.0 handles favicons - but it always looks for favicon.ico, even if a page has a <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mydomain.org/custom.ico"> tag on it.

I noticed that when using tabbed browsing in NS7, favicon.ico is requested from the server whenever focus is given to the tab that includes that icon. This happens regardless of browser, proxy, or ico file cache settings, too. So, I suspect it is the 'tab manager' issuing the requests, and the tab manager is not working with the browser cache. Nor is it really aware of the <shortcut icon> tag in the page being displayed... In other words, they are processing the icon handling at the wrong place in the code (not that I know where the right place would be)...

I have custom icons on several sites, and in order to prevent 404 errors on favicon.ico (which I removed in favor of the custom icon), I had to redirect favicon.ico to custom.ico. Even using an external permanent (301) redirect, NS7 keeps requesting favicon.ico whenever the tab is given focus. Because of that, I changed the redirect to a simple internal "file" redirect.

Jim