[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 266426] New: Favicons do not update

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266426

            Bug ID: 266426
           Summary: Favicons do not update
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: P2
         Component: New Bugs
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: mike at prime31.com

Dynamic, live websites (eg Gmail, Slack, Discord, Teams, etc) very often update the favicon to indicate new messages are present. Currently the only way to get Safari to respect the favicon change is to manually delete the icon cache and refresh the page.

Additionally, if you load a webpage that has unreads (eg Gmail with 10 unreads) then you update them all the website favicon will be cached as having 10 unreads. Not ideal.

Favicon updates allow using just a glance to tell if a web page needs to be visited. Without them correctly displaying reality in real time it makes it hard to use WebKit based browsers due to time waste of manually clicking through all live tabs.

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