[ENHANCEMENT] Make bookmark icons stable ( cached, loaded once) and properly arranged (like shortcuts) #372

olehdnipro commented 2026年05月24日 22:38:21 +02:00

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• I confirm that this issue occurs on the latest release of IronFox. You can check what the latest version is on the Releases page.
• I confirm that this issue has NOT already been reported on our issue tracker.

Please explain your proposal with as many details as necessary (Ex. what you're suggesting, why you're suggesting it, what need you thinks it will fill, who it will benefit, etc...).

Every time I launch Ironfox (v.151, on Sams A52) with homepage set to show bookmarks, their icons are blank and seems to be loading something from the net for several seconds until being rendered, instead of just caching icon on first visit of the website, that is very frustrating. Also icons are veeery big and appear to be placed outside of screen, if there more thans 3. Also if user clicks "Remove" on the bookmark on homepage, there is no way to get it back.
So I would like to have bookmark icons more stable, smaller, and ideally arranged no more than 3-4 in a row - "shortcuts" look much better, however I did not find any setting to specify what websites will become shortcut and now app just throws to shortcuts all recently visited staff, if homepage is set to show shortcuts

### Confirmation Checklist - [x] I confirm that this issue occurs on the **latest release** of IronFox. You can check what the latest version is [on the `Releases` page](https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/releases). - [x] I confirm that this issue has **NOT** already been reported on [our issue tracker](https://codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/bugs/issues). ### Please explain your proposal with as many details as necessary (Ex. what you're suggesting, why you're suggesting it, what need you thinks it will fill, who it will benefit, etc...). Every time I launch Ironfox (v.151, on Sams A52) with homepage set to show bookmarks, their icons are blank and seems to be loading something from the net for several seconds until being rendered, instead of just caching icon on first visit of the website, that is very frustrating. Also icons are veeery big and appear to be placed outside of screen, if there more thans 3. Also if user clicks "Remove" on the bookmark on homepage, there is no way to get it back. **So I would like to have bookmark icons more stable, smaller, and ideally arranged no more than 3-4 in a row** - "shortcuts" look much better, however I did not find any setting to specify what websites will become shortcut and now app just throws to shortcuts all recently visited staff, if homepage is set to show shortcuts

LainBrain commented 2026年05月31日 00:41:18 +02:00

If it is actually loading from the site that would expose what your bookmarks are and potentially who you are if that is not exposed by other means, due to it consistently loading same sites same time. Inversely using a normal cache lets each site know you visited them before. Only way I can think of around this is if the cache is only used for the bookmarks but not when you open a site in a tab or when for a tab it has a cache and loads the more recent in the background as if there is no cache. Though this also might be flawed in that on a single visit to a site going to page with no cache loading may be fingerprintable behavior as well. So cache should maybe be used when from same domain until all tabs for the domain are closed. Or is this already not an issue? I could be way off on this and overthinking or assuming too much and of course such behavior should be in other browsers to make it not too unique an action. I do not use bookmarks on homepage myself so I am not sure what exactly what is meant.

If it is actually loading from the site that would expose what your bookmarks are and potentially who you are if that is not exposed by other means, due to it consistently loading same sites same time. Inversely using a normal cache lets each site know you visited them before. Only way I can think of around this is if the cache is only used for the bookmarks but not when you open a site in a tab or when for a tab it has a cache and loads the more recent in the background as if there is no cache. Though this also might be flawed in that on a single visit to a site going to page with no cache loading may be fingerprintable behavior as well. So cache should maybe be used when from same domain until all tabs for the domain are closed. Or is this already not an issue? I could be way off on this and overthinking or assuming too much and of course such behavior should be in other browsers to make it not too unique an action. I do not use bookmarks on homepage myself so I am not sure what exactly what is meant.

olehdnipro commented 2026年05月31日 00:48:31 +02:00

Attached 2 screenshots - on app start(blank icons), and few seconds later. It would be enough to make bookmark icon something abstract, if loading it may cause privacy issues. However, now browser loads something anyway

Attached 2 screenshots - on app start(blank icons), and few seconds later. It would be enough to make bookmark icon something abstract, if loading it may cause privacy issues. However, now browser loads something anyway