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What controls top site icons from using "rich icons" or "default icons"?

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What controls the whether firefox 58 uses a default icon( little box with a letter) + the background image for the webpage or the nice big icons for top sites that I add to the top sites tool bar.

If you do an inspection of the underlying code for a top site with a default icon "a small box with a letter" along with a screen shot - this is what you will see:

<div class="screenshot active" style="background-image: url(&quot;data:image/png;.......greatly shortened for viewing........);"></div>
<div class="top-site-icon default-icon">p</div>

The code for the nice big icons like the one for amazon.com this is what you will see:

<div class="top-site-icon rich-icon" style="background-image: url(&quot;resource://activity-stream/data/content/tippytop/images/amazon@2x.png&quot;);"></div>

I had to do a restore on my system and lost some of my top sites - when I put them back in they reverted to "default-icon" never back to "rich-icon" some sites always go back to using "rich icons". What controls this? Is it a browser setting or a web page thing?

What controls the whether firefox 58 uses a default icon( little box with a letter) + the background image for the webpage or the nice big icons for top sites that I add to the top sites tool bar. If you do an inspection of the underlying code for a top site with a default icon "a small box with a letter" along with a screen shot - this is what you will see: <pre><nowiki><div class="screenshot active" style="background-image: url(&quot;data:image/png;.......greatly shortened for viewing........);"></div> <div class="top-site-icon default-icon">p</div></nowiki></pre> The code for the nice big icons like the one for amazon.com this is what you will see: <pre><nowiki> <div class="top-site-icon rich-icon" style="background-image: url(&quot;resource://activity-stream/data/content/tippytop/images/amazon@2x.png&quot;);"></div></nowiki></pre> I had to do a restore on my system and lost some of my top sites - when I put them back in they reverted to "default-icon" never back to "rich-icon" some sites always go back to using "rich icons". What controls this? Is it a browser setting or a web page thing?

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Sorry the code wasn't added as pure text....

code for a default icon for paypal.com:

class="top-site-icon default-icon">p

code for amazon.com:

class="top-site-icon rich-icon" style="background-image: url("resource://activity-stream/data/content/tippytop/images/amazon@2x.png");"

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You need to change < to &lt; in order to avoid the forum eating your HTML.

Example 1: thumbnail image with site icon overlaid

<div class="tile" aria-hidden="true">   <span class="letter-fallback">u</span>   <div class="screenshot active" style="background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,**encoded-image-data**");"></div>   <div class="top-site-icon default-icon" style="background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,**encoded-image-data**");"></div> </div>

Example 2: built-in icon

<div class="tile" aria-hidden="true">   <span class="letter-fallback">y</span>   <div class="top-site-icon rich-icon" style="background-image: url("resource://activity-stream/data/content/tippytop/images/youtube-com@2x.png");"></div> </div>

The second one is a built-in image (resource:// address), I think so Firefox has something to show people who haven't filled the list with their own history. But it may still appear mixed in with your history instead of a thumbnail for that site.

I don't know if you can control which one Firefox uses. Interesting question.

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You can cover the whole tile with the site icon by injecting some custom style rules into the new tab page:

.top-sites-list .top-site-outer .default-icon {
  height: 100% !important;
  width: 100% !important;
  bottom: unset !important;
  offset-inline-end: unset !important;
}

However, the icon is small and centered; Firefox does not magically come up with larger artwork. So that's not a particularly appealing option in my eyes:

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See also:

  • resource://activity-stream/data/content/tippytop/top_sites.json
  • resource://activity-stream/data/content/tippytop/images/