[webkit-dev] Icon cache clearing

[Kevin M. Dean]

I'm not switching between 2 and 3, I'm switching between 3 and the  
webkit nightly version running within 3.


On Jun 15, 2007, at 1:08 PM, robert delius royar wrote:

> FWIW, I noticed that after installing Safari 3, the icons are in ~/ 
> Library/Safari/Icons/icon.db
>
> In Safari 2 (according to an old backup from late May), they were in
> ~/Library/Safari/Icons/Icons.db
>
> I haven't run Safari 2 since installing 3, but I wondered why 3 had  
> to find the icons all over again.
>
> Fri, 15 Jun 2007 (09:47 -0700 UTC) Brady Eidson wrote:
>
>> Kevin,
>>
>> Officially, there's no planned support for switching between  
>> Safari 2 and Safari 3 repeatedly.
>>
>> That said, this is weird - I have switched between Safari 2 and 3  
>> during development repeatedly and not noticed this behavior.
>>
>> I'd recommend you file a bug at bugs.webkit.org and attach your ~/ 
>> Library/Safari/Icons.db both before you lose all the icons, and  
>> afterwards. There should be code to guard against this but it  
>> seems like it's not working in your case, and it might be easy to  
>> find out why.
>>
>> ? Brady
>> Safari/WebKit Engineer
>>
>>

Kevin M. Dean
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