Investigate excessive network requests and incorrect paths for favicon.ico

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Investigate excessive network requests for favicon.ico and incorrect paths. This might be a regression and/or related to excessive refreshes on the homepage. Some additional links with further notes/context added below. This was recently mentioned on this blog post which has a list of the requests repro’ing in 127.1.

Related issues:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/10939

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/12617

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/12660

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/12113

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/13345

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task

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➤ Matt Reagan commented:

Andrei Bodea Alina Moldovan There are no significant user-facing changes here, though regression testing around favicons would be helpful to make sure that there were no side-effects of this change.

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➤ Andrei Bodea commented:

Verified as fixed on v130 (4449) with iPhone 15 Pro (17.5.1).