Site icons pixelated and mismatched

jcf · 19 Jan

Site icons through Safari and Orion are aggressively cached and chosen poorly.

Notice both Kagi and Invetica in the attached screenshot have pixelated icons when high-resolution versions are available via the site web manifest.

I’ve also noticed when visiting a reverse proxy with path-based routing that the first site icon found is used for every path regardless of the web page’s response — I guess because of an overly aggressive cache.

I expect high-resolution icons to be used wherever possible and for caches to update when necessary.

If a web site responds with a new icon, the browser should use it. It is not appropriate to cache indefinitely with the expectation that users will find and delete data for that site.

1.3.16 (2) (WebKit 8620.1.16.10.11)

Sequoia (15)

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Yannick · 20 Jan

You are right. We are also working on the ability to force a page refresh, and thus load the most recent favicon.