Currently, the favicon.ico contains sizes 16, 32, 48, 64, 128 and 256, adding up to a file size of 361 kByte.
favicon.ico is only required for IE <= 11, modern browsers understand PNG and SVG. An SVG is even already linked from the pages.
For any legacy browsers, a favicon.ico containing sizes 16 and 32 should be sufficient.
BTW, KIO even aborts when trying to use the favicon: "Icon file too big, download aborted" (err=KIO::ERR_SLAVE_DEFINED)
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | ognarb | T6842 Kde.org overhaul | ||
| Resolved | ognarb | T10179 Reduce favicon.ico to a sane size |
So favicon.ico will be ignored by any sane browser? When I check with chromium it does get loaded alongside favicon.svg, I'm not sure for what purpose though.
Can you provide a smaller version of favicon.ico?
The current loaded size is 6kByte, I guess it could be even smaller if we switch to svg but I think this is already fine.