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I was sure this has been a thing for a while, either that or safari has a UI bug since forever. I regularly get the wrong favicon in specific sites, for exampl

by breppp 11mo ago

I was sure this has been a thing for a while, either that or safari has a UI bug since forever. I regularly get the wrong favicon in specific sites, for example ars technica favicon in reddit

robotnikman 11mo ago
I get the same bug in Firefox as well sometimes.
goodells 11mo ago
I thought I was the only one! Something in the UI cache is so horribly corrupted and it has been for years on my MacBook, I just gave up hope.
croes 11mo ago
I get the wrong for HN in mobile Chrome
- cubefox 11mo ago
  So a similar favicon bug exists in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. Impressive!
snailmailman 11mo ago
My hacker news icon has been stuck as the icon for a weather site that I sometimes check. It’s been stuck that way for close to a year now, and has survived an iOS update too. It persists across profiles and into private browsing mode.
- mycall 11mo ago
  Could site icons be connected somehow to iCloud?
- deleted 11mo ago
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- grugagag 11mo ago
  To me HN has been stuck as Facebooks icon for a really long time.
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- 1718627440 11mo ago
  You guys have favicons? I don't have any in my tabs, but maybe I have turned that of at some point. I'm using Mozilla Firefox.
  - dewey 11mo ago
    Firefox and Safari both have favicons in the tabs.
    - 1718627440 11mo ago
      Yes, I also have them in general, e.g. on about:newtab, but for HN, there isn't any shown on the tab (there is if I make a bookmark). Maybe I messed something up.
prodigycorp 11mo ago
Safari has super long lived favicon caches too. The only way to force a rebuild is to set your system clock forward a few years.
- garrettgarcia 11mo ago
  According to the Github page, you can just run `rm ~/Library/Safari/Favicon Cache/*`
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  - ftchd 11mo ago
    yes, but time travel is cooler
  - prodigycorp 11mo ago
    iOS
throwup238 11mo ago
For me the iOS HN icon changes between the reddit and github, depending on which one I've been using the most on my phone recently. This happens on both iOS Safari and Kagi's Orion. I thought that this was just a bug in iOS but based on the comments in this thread, it seems to be common not only across OSes but browser vendors too (I assume iOS Orion uses the same engine as Safari)
supriyo-biswas 11mo ago
I have the same, the Youtube icon is the Hacker news icon, and the other way round. I have to assume this is some sort of race condition, data corruption, or something else, and it's quite widespread too given all these reports.

by breppp 11mo ago

I was sure this has been a thing for a while, either that or safari has a UI bug since forever. I regularly get the wrong favicon in specific sites, for example ars technica favicon in reddit

robotnikman 11mo ago

I get the same bug in Firefox as well sometimes.

goodells 11mo ago

I thought I was the only one! Something in the UI cache is so horribly corrupted and it has been for years on my MacBook, I just gave up hope.

croes 11mo ago

I get the wrong for HN in mobile Chrome

cubefox 11mo ago
So a similar favicon bug exists in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. Impressive!

snailmailman 11mo ago

My hacker news icon has been stuck as the icon for a weather site that I sometimes check. It’s been stuck that way for close to a year now, and has survived an iOS update too. It persists across profiles and into private browsing mode.

mycall 11mo ago
Could site icons be connected somehow to iCloud?
deleted 11mo ago
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grugagag 11mo ago
To me HN has been stuck as Facebooks icon for a really long time.
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1718627440 11mo ago
You guys have favicons? I don't have any in my tabs, but maybe I have turned that of at some point. I'm using Mozilla Firefox.
- dewey 11mo ago
  Firefox and Safari both have favicons in the tabs.
  - 1718627440 11mo ago
    Yes, I also have them in general, e.g. on about:newtab, but for HN, there isn't any shown on the tab (there is if I make a bookmark). Maybe I messed something up.

prodigycorp 11mo ago

Safari has super long lived favicon caches too. The only way to force a rebuild is to set your system clock forward a few years.

garrettgarcia 11mo ago
According to the Github page, you can just run `rm ~/Library/Safari/Favicon Cache/*`
- deleted 11mo ago
  [deleted]
- ftchd 11mo ago
  yes, but time travel is cooler
- prodigycorp 11mo ago
  iOS

throwup238 11mo ago

For me the iOS HN icon changes between the reddit and github, depending on which one I've been using the most on my phone recently. This happens on both iOS Safari and Kagi's Orion. I thought that this was just a bug in iOS but based on the comments in this thread, it seems to be common not only across OSes but browser vendors too (I assume iOS Orion uses the same engine as Safari)

supriyo-biswas 11mo ago

I have the same, the Youtube icon is the Hacker news icon, and the other way round. I have to assume this is some sort of race condition, data corruption, or something else, and it's quite widespread too given all these reports.