Brave is forgetting my favicons every day and going back to the generic globe symbol. Clicking a globe will go to the site and renew the favicon, but the next day they’ll be generic globes again.
Description of the issue: How can this issue be reproduced?
Have bookmarks displayed.
Use Brave for more than a day.
Expected result:
Brave should remember the favicons for bookmarks and display them. This used to work.
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.10.93 Chromium: 83.0.4103.106 (Official Build) (64-bit)]
Thank you. My issue applies to the Brave Desktop browser’s missing favicons for all sites I have bookmarked. The Web Compatibility category says it is for issues regarding specific web sites. I believe my question is in the correct category.
I am. And for anyone with Brave who might be following this, I just launched Brave for the first time this morning, saw the favicons that I expected to see for about five seconds, then watched them all turn into generic globes.
I believe the culprit is Sync. I had re-enabled it on my desktop computers via the brave://flags page. I have reset it to Default and will see if the problem goes away.
Sync v2 is currently available on our Nightly build - https://brave.com/download-nightly/ if you would want to try that. It will eventually be uplifted to the Release version.
@BruceS, unfortunately, I don’t think sync has anything to do with this. I am constantly losing my icons. I have Brave on one device only, with sync disabled.
If you find the solution, I hope you reply here. I’d like to continue using Brave, but the constant issues are moving me back to Firefox.
Yesterday I installed Brave Nightly on my two desktops and tried to set up a new Sync chain, but the Sync Chain Code generated by one desktop was not accepted as valid by the other desktop. I tried it both ways. So I’ll stick with the unSynced official build for now and let you work those bugs out.
Thanks, BruceS! I’ll double-check and make sure I don’t have sync on. Also, I am 99% sure I have Brave on only one device but have had it on three. I’ll make sure it still isn’t lurking on my old phone or something.
I can verify the loss of favicons seems to be related to the Sync feature. I’ve got 1.10.97 installed on two Win 10 machines. As soon as I enabled sync on both of them I lost the favicons. Even once the favicons are gone if I click a site the favicon is refreshed in the bookmarks, but it disappears again sometime later. I don’t know exactly when it disappears but they aren’t staying with sync enabled. I’m turning off sync today and we’ll see what happens, but this issue definitely happened right after I enabled sync.
***7/16/2020 - Update - I disabled Brave sync on both machines, reloaded all the favicons (which was kind of a pain) and now the favicons are sticking as expected. So it’s certainly sync causing lost favicons.