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Favicons and Tab-titles are messed up, and don't stick to correct data -- how to fix?!

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Mel
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for a few days now FF doesn't show favicons and titles of tabs correctly anymore. (see below for screencast)

  • Instead, some "standard"-sites are shown in tab-titles and favicons: 
 - google
 - wikipedia
 - get involved (firefox)
  - Firefox central
  • as soon as i activate a tab, it's favicon and symbol is updated immediatelly.
  • most favicons updateto their correct data, as soon as it gets in the background it falls back to the wrong data.
  • all titles update to it's correct title as soon as activated. But againfalls back when going to background again.
  • in some tabs, the favicon completely disappears when activating (including the reserved space for the icon)
  • also in "group your tabs" view the favicons/titles are invalid. Ironically, just most of them (some favicons are correct) -- which makes it more difficult to understand for me.
  • in the group-tabs-view some of the pinned tabs/apps favicons are simply missing.

emptying cache, cookies, offline data, restarting FF, rebooting machine didn't help so far.

As far as i love my history and profile data i don't wanna make new FF-profiles.

i haven't changed the AddOns configuration the last weeks, but deactivated Sync a few days ago (because Sync messed up my bookmarks completely -- as described here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1023070 )

Video of screencast: https://flic.kr/p/qMVf2p can add screenshots as well, if needed. But the video shows the behaviour better in my eyes.

for a few days now FF doesn't show favicons and titles of tabs correctly anymore. (see below for screencast) * Instead, some "standard"-sites are shown in tab-titles and favicons: - google - wikipedia - get involved (firefox) - Firefox central * as soon as i activate a tab, it's favicon and symbol is updated immediatelly. * most favicons updateto their correct data, as soon as it gets in the background it falls back to the wrong data. * all titles update to it's correct title as soon as activated. But againfalls back when going to background again. * in some tabs, the favicon completely disappears when activating (including the reserved space for the icon) * also in "group your tabs" view the favicons/titles are invalid. Ironically, just most of them (some favicons are correct) -- which makes it more difficult to understand for me. * in the group-tabs-view some of the pinned tabs/apps favicons are simply missing. emptying cache, cookies, offline data, restarting FF, rebooting machine didn't help so far. As far as i love my history and profile data i don't wanna make new FF-profiles. i haven't changed the AddOns configuration the last weeks, but deactivated Sync a few days ago (because Sync messed up my bookmarks completely -- as described here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1023070 ) Video of screencast: https://flic.kr/p/qMVf2p can add screenshots as well, if needed. But the video shows the behaviour better in my eyes.

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This looks like it's being caused by an add-on (of which you have many, a recent update of any one of those add-ons could be causing this). Have you tried testing in a fresh profile? Profile Manager - Create, remove or switch Firefox profiles

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This looks like it's being caused by an add-on (of which you have many, a recent update of any one of those add-ons could be causing this). Have you tried testing in a fresh profile? Profile Manager - Create, remove or switch Firefox profiles

FredMcD
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} While you are in safe mode;

Type about:preferences#advanced<Enter> in the address bar.

Under Advanced, Select General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.

Poke around safe web sites. Are there any problems?

Mel
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due to Firefox' habit of updating AddOns and itself without any(!) notification I didn't think of AddOns causing problems.

after twelfty restarts I figured out it's an AddOn (didn't play around with profiles, just dis/enabled AddOns one after the other) It could have been sooo easy, the name of the AddOn describes the problem as well: "TabRenamizer" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabrenamizer/ disabling the AddOn made the problem disappear.

second hint concerning hardware acceleration didn't show any differences while testing.

PRO: problem solved, thanks guys! CON: can't use one of my most beloved and used AddOns anymore ;-/ (development not continued)

Modified by Mel