favicons in Konqueror

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2010 schrieb Duncan:
> phanisvara das posted on Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:34:59 +0530 as 
excerpted:
> > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:12:58 +0530, Martin (KDE)
> > <kde at fahrendorf.de>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> I recently tidied up my harddrive and removed all favicons from
> >> the cache folder. The icons are reload if I visit a webpage
> >> with favicon, but konqueror does not show them (neither in my
> >> bookmarks nor in the address line). rekonq on the other hand
> >> displays them. Is anyone seeing this?
> > 
> > my konqueror (openSUSE 11.4, KDE Distro:/Factory) does show
> > favicons. didn't delete the cache though.
> 
> That reply points out by example some critical information the OP
> is missing.  What version of konqueror/kde are we talking?  What
> distribution as well, in case it's a distro-specific patch?  Any
> other potentially mitigating factors to be aware of?  (The OP
> /did/ include a couple of those, that the favicons were deleted,
> that they reload and rekonq shows them but konqueror doesn't.)

Jep, sorry missed out some basic infos. I use fedora 14 with recent 
kde4 (here is 4.5.4) on x86.

> 
> Given the rekonq mention, it's probably a reasonably new kde4, not
> someone still on 3.5 or something, but we still don't know how
> new, 4.6 beta, in which case that might be a beta bug, 4.5.4,
> 4.5.0, 4.4.something?
> 
> FWIW, gentoo/~amd64 here, running the latest upstream stable
> (4.5.4) from the gentoo/kde overlay.  I'm not currently having
> favicon issues but I've had them in the past.

I had problems with favicons every now and then but never that bad as 
of now. Strange thing however is that every now and then one or two 
icons reapear. And most of web pages not listed in my bookmarks shows 
favicons left to the URL.

> 
> FWIW I've never had rekonq installed.  Konqueror is my primary
> browser, but I use firefox a lot as well, particularly where
> scripting is involved since noscript makes figuring out which
> sites a page is trying to load scripts from so much easier than
> anything I've seen for konqueror.  Both of them run thru my
> privoxy junk-busting, &c. personal proxy by default. I have both
> links and lynx available for backup text-mode browsing, should it
> be necessary, as well.  (Kinda hard to google a problem preventing
> X or KDE from starting, or download a fix manually, when all your
> browsers run in KDE on X!)

I started using rekonq about one year ago as khtml didn't satisfy me 
any longer. But I try konqueror/khtml to check if it is getting better 
(and it is) as rekonq crashes way to often.

> 
> The problem I had here was due to where KDE locates the cache, by
> default.  I run a tmpfs based /tmp and set KDETMP=/tmp/tmp-user/kde
> in my kde launch scripts, so tempfiles are on the tmpfs and get
> erased at reboot.  Unfortunately when  I first set that up, I had
> kde trying to put favicons there as well, and naturally, they'd
> all disappear on a reboot! For konqueror I could have lived with
> that, but akregator used the same favicon cache and I found the
> loss of its icons unacceptable.  I ended up setting
> KDEVARTMP=/home/user/config/cache, and things have "just worked"
> since then. (FWIW, KDEHOME=/home/user/kde , note that I do NOT
> like .file hidden paths/files!)

I didn't touch these environment variables. And the favicons are 
loaded as soon as I visit the webpage. I can see them in the favicon 
folder. But konqueror refused to show them.

> 
> So I'd suggest checking the values of those variables, if they are
> set (if the compiled-in defaults are fine for you, you might not
> need them set, but if they ARE set), and that they are set and
> exported early enough so konqueror for sure sees them.
> 
> If you're on Fedora or something else running SELinux or the like,
> it's also possible that the file access policies for konqueror are
> set such that it can't access the new favicons.  Being a web
> browser, thus exposed to all sorts of Internet based exploits,
> it's more likely that they'd set a rather strict security policy
> for it than for local-only apps.  Rekonq is possibly new enough
> that it doesn't have such a security policy set for it, yet.  But
> I've never gotten into SELinux or the like, so you'll have to go
> elsewhere for help in any detail on it.

As I had some strange warnings with SELinux I have set it to warning 
only

So maybe it is time to check if a fresh user has the same problems. My 
.kde folder is basically 10 years old.

Martin
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