App to Fix Globe Bookmark Favicon on Firefox

by Rian

Firefox is giving me different varieties of issues lately. Partly, because I think most apps are now geared toward Chrome and Safari — the most popular on all platforms or the most popular on single platform browsers. But that’s an excuse for Firefox not working with websites and web UIs, not the Firefox’s own bookmarks failing to grab favicon from added URL. The usual fix I could find after some Googling suggested re-adding or editing the URl to force Firefox to update the icon, but only to no avail.

Cache Favicons for Bookmarks is the Firefox extension designed to fix that problem. Instead of default globe icon for bookmarks, it allows Firefox to override possible website’s ‘no-cache’ instruction to save a favicon. Because this is a simple plugin, you could activate it only to update an entry then disable it until such a time it is needed again.

I suppose Firefox really shows its strength and weakness in one in cases such as bookmarks — its ecosystem is so open, more developers are invested in fixing a niche problem with an extension, but the core experience is still not the most streamlined. I was lucky someone had already created a solution for a problem that I barely understood: why and how Firefox is refusing to get a favicon for a specific web UI of a docker container running locally. At the same time, I was unlucky this is a problem someone had already encountered and solved, but Firefox hasn’t integrated in yet.