Firefox does not save the favicon for sites that have favicons larger than 16kb. See Mozilla bug 252401. This is because the icon is encoded into the bookmarks.html file adding sites with large icons caused performance issues and crashes.
http://www.ubuntu.com/themes/ubuntu07/favicon.ico size of file 24.62 kb is well past the cut of of 16kb https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252401 -- Firefox bookmark icons https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102848 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
