Unable to Reinstante Missing Bookmark Toolbar Icons
I'm running 145.0.2 on Mint Linux and Windows 11...
Like many other users, I have an issue in which roughly half of the icons representing bookmarks on my Bookmarks Toolbar have been replaced by the black+and+white icon of a globe. The links work, but because most of them are now the same, it means I have to hover over them to make sure I click on the link I want.
I've tried: Exporting all my bookmarks to HTML; deleting all bookmarks; re-importing Deleting the "favicons.sqlite" database and letting Firefox recreate it Creating a new Profile and importing all my bookmarks "fresh" in to there
Not only does none of this seem to work, the results are actually inconsistent.
This problem has been kicking around for years - certainly for many major releases of the browser. I understand that there could be deep/complicated issues such as a corrupt user profile, for example...
Unfortunately, however, there does not appear to be any consistent or reliable effective advice on how to fix this issue... and nothing I try seems to resolve the problem.
I'd be very grateful for any recommendations on a reliable repair for this issue.
But I'd also be grateful for suggestions as to how we might go about suggesting to the devs that this long-running bug is overdue a permanent fix.
Thanks in hope.
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Those icons are pulled from the sites after visiting the site. see screenshots I had the same globe until I opened all the sites in tabs and then icons are now there. AI overview
When I close my browser and delete my cache, those icons usually go away.
Edeziri
Another example is this site chasms.com. It has no .ico so there is no icon on my toolbar, just the globe. seescreenshot
Edeziri
I just cleared history, cache, and startup cache, but the icons are still there. Maybe someone closer to dev can chime in on the behavior of the .ico files. Also noticed on another computer(old mac) that the icons sync even though the sites were not opened on the computer.