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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by ctxc on Saturday June 29, 2024 @04:24AM (#40828671)
Could you add a more to that? What other complex parts are built by FF?
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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by JimDabell on Saturday June 29, 2024 @08:13AM (#40829851)
Why the “complex” qualifier? The code responsible for the incorrect favicon URL bug is very simple, and part of the Firefox codebase not WebKit:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/bd589c194...

Firefox on iOS has about 200k lines of Swift. As a rough rule of thumb, everything that isn’t directly related to rendering something within the page or executing JavaScript is Firefox code not WebKit code. So bookmarks, syncing, tabs, etc.

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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by matsemann on Saturday June 29, 2024 @06:19AM (#40829163)
Not necessarily complex, but the tab switcher etc is built by Firefox, and probably is what tries to load the favicons to display the icon somewhere?
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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by fmbb on Saturday June 29, 2024 @04:29AM (#40828702)
What do you think is complex?
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