It's not part of individual directories. That would be stupid. Having a path-specific favicon actually sounds like a feature.
That's the point the author made.
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#12It's an open source project, with a good discussion of the technical issues on GitHub[1]. Probably linked to certain user behaviors, like having hundreds of tabs open, but surely also contingent on the complexity of wedging a browser in iOS. Like maneuvering an excavator into a sandbox. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/12113
Also, when I saw the headline, I had to think of all the LLM scrapers and bots (soon to be running directly on your AIphone!) roaming the Interwebs.
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#13It's not part of individual directories. That would be stupid. Having a path-specific favicon actually sounds like a feature.
It is quite easy these days if you define tags to specify the icon (as opposed to depending on files being in the right places).
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#15This isn't a very constructive post. Are we supposed to believe this is the only inefficient and buggy software out there? Seems weird to call out a particular project like that.
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#17It's an open source project, with a good discussion of the technical issues on GitHub[1]. Probably linked to certain user behaviors, like having hundreds of tabs open, but surely also contingent on the complexity of wedging a browser in iOS. Like maneuvering an excavator into a sandbox. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/12113
I thought all browsers on iOS were using the apple browser engine and ditto for Android.
That is, they are just skins
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#18Oh hey, I wrote that last issue linked! What crazy Deja vu. Here’s me discovering the issue that led me to find some wild behavior. Basically Firefox loaded favicons 4x the number of tabs opened to that website. It would do this every time I opened or closed any tab. https://aggressivelyparaphrasing.me/2022/12/12/why-does-my-l... It was resolved a while back so maybe it’s similar symptoms but different root cause, or…
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#19Interesting. From a user experience, Firefox for iPhone has been a really excellent app, it’s been my preferred browser for years.
Even if it’s basically a skin for Safari?
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#20It's an open source project, with a good discussion of the technical issues on GitHub[1]. Probably linked to certain user behaviors, like having hundreds of tabs open, but surely also contingent on the complexity of wedging a browser in iOS. Like maneuvering an excavator into a sandbox. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/12113
I thought all browsers on iOS were using the apple browser engine and ditto for Android. That is, they are just skins
They are using the WebKit rendering engine, but there’s a lot more to a web browser than just its rendering engine. They aren’t just skins.