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Re:Google foobar by tedmiston on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:51AM (#12901766)
If there even is a favicon... and if a .ico file is considered an "image".
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Re:Google foobar by shakna on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @02:40PM (#12903299)
If there is no favicon... There'll still be a request, it'll just 404.

Every modern browser I know of automatically tries to fetch favicon.ico.

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Re:Google foobar by tedmiston on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:32PM (#12903672)
Good point. I suppose it's presumably async with respect to the render anyway. It looks even more nuanced on pages that have an iframe [1] (though presumably that's not the case here).

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13416784/149428

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