Crapola. Firefox 0.9 doesn't manage to keep the icons for sites around correctly. After a reboot of the system, they were gone again. Now I can't think of any good reason why a reboot would trigger this, so I must be missing some other symptom. They also don't seem to work right on Windows. Really, I don't get it; you bookmark a site, so the browser does an http get on favicon.ico. Then it saves it to the hard drive somewhere, indexed by domain name. Then when asked to display the icon for a particular url, it parses off the domain name, looks it up in the map, and pulls the appropriate icon data.
What's so freaking hard about that? Why is it that the bookmark icons continually disappear on every single browser I've ever seen. Is, "displaying customized site icons" somehow a core computer science problem that is just about unsolvable? Is the correct algorithm NP-complete for some reason that I'm missing, or is this just conicidental shitty coding by all the browsers?
I suppose if I'm going to talk shit, maybe I should submit a patch for the stupid problem.
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