According to the blog of Mozilla Software Engineer Jared Wein, M.Sc, the Firefox team has just killed off the age-old favicon in yesterday’s nightly build. Wein states that the changes are set to ...

Favicons will be removed from Firefox's address bar by mid-July, due to a security issue stemming from malicious sites using a lock icon to fool users into thinking they're on a secure connection. A ...

Mozilla has deemed favicons a security risk and will be doing away with the tiny graphics in Firefox. The organization has already made the change on the most recent nightly build with plans to ...