When reseting Orion, do not clear favourite sites favicons

joystmp

Brief Summary
Presently when reseting Orion, favicons of all sites are cleared.

However, favicons of favourite sites should not be cleared. Because, after the browser is reset and launched, all the favicons are re-downloaded, by making requests to each site. This makes unnecessary requests to those sites and leaks private information (including but not limited to ip address).

Vlad

joystmp That is the whole point of resetting the browser entirely. You can deslect "Empty browser cache" if you do not want favorites to be impacted.

josefhelie

Jumping in on this thread — @Vlad , your answer doesn’t seem entirely accurate. When I clear Orion’s cache, the favicons in my favorites bar disappear. Is there any way to address this? Having to reload each icon by opening all the tabs after every cache clear is… not ideal. 😅

josefhelie

When clearing Orion’s cache, all favicons stored in the Favorites bar are removed. This forces the user to manually reload each favicon by visiting each site again individually.
Steps to replicate:
1. Open a fresh Orion profile.
2. Add multiple favorite sites to the Favorites bar.
3. Confirm favicons appear correctly.
4. Clear Cache.
5. Observe favicons disappear from the Favorites bar, reverting to default icons.

This behavior does not occur in Safari, suggesting it is not a WebKit-specific issue but Orion-specific.
This already has been reported in: @https://orionfeedback.org/d/5929-when-reseting-orion-do-not-clear-favourite-sites-favicons by @joystmp

Favicons stored in the Favorites bar should remain intact after clearing the browser cache. Users should not need to individually reload each site to restore the favicons. Orion should preserve cached favicons separately, similar to how Safari handles favicons independently of cache clearing.

0.99.133-beta (WebKit 621.1.2.111.4)

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