Bug 14476 – Incorrect favicon displayed after following link and then returning

• Component: WebKit Misc.
• Status: UNCONFIRMED

[Sam Thorne]

Following a link from site A to site B, but using Back to cancel the page load and return to site A before the load of site B is complete results in the site A using the favicon of site B in the address bar. 

e.g. daringfireball.net links to http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruber/666953031/, then using Back before load completes results in daringfireball.net using the flickr favicon.

After this, following any link from site A to another site and then using Back to return, results in the same incorrect favicon displaying.
Following any link from site A to a another page on site A results in the correct favicon on the new page, but using Back results in the incorrect favicon displaying again.

This is reproducible.

At one point the favicon in the address bar was corrected (by using Enter in the address bar to refresh), but by this point the incorrect favicon had been cached and used in the bookmarks bar dropdown. The incorrect favicon remained in the bookmarks bar dropdown while the correct icon appeared in the address bar until restart of Safari.
I can't reproduce this, as I'm not sure what triggers the cache of the icon and it's use in the favourites dropdown.

This is similar to 10551 but is occurring with a normal link, not a redirect.

[Sam Thorne]

Created attachment 15326 [details]
Image of incorrect/out of sync favicon display

An screenshot of the second part of this bug

[Graham Perrin]

Is this bug 14476 related to bug 10551?

Highlight https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10551#c7