Resolve favicons through Google's s2 service

Pointing the renderer at the site's own `/favicon.ico` was producing
GPUI image-cache errors on every other tab — notion.com redirected
across origins, sites shipped multi-image `image/x-icon` blobs the
PNG/WebP decoder couldn't read, hosts 404'd. Each one logged a noisy
`ERROR gpui::asset_cache: Failed to load asset` line.

Switch `UrlText::favicon_url` to
`https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=<host>&sz=64`. Google's
endpoint normalises every response to PNG, follows redirects on its
side, and serves a `_/` globe glyph for sites without a favicon at
all — same URL shape every browser dev-tools panel already shows
for "favicon" so the fetch is uniformly succeeding.
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2026-05-15 21:59:30 -04:00
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@@ -72,18 +72,29 @@ impl UrlText {
url.host_str().map(str::to_string).unwrap_or_else(|| self.value.clone())
}
/// Resolve the canonical `/favicon.ico` URL for an HTTP(S) page.
/// Returns `None` for non-web schemes (`ely://`, `file://`, etc.)
/// or URLs missing an authority — those tabs render the URL-derived
/// glyph instead of a fetched icon.
/// Resolve a favicon URL for an HTTP(S) page. Returns `None` for
/// non-web schemes (`ely://`, `file://`, …) and for URLs missing
/// an authority — those tabs render the URL-derived glyph instead.
///
/// We deliberately do NOT point the renderer at the site's own
/// `/favicon.ico` because a) many sites only ship that icon as
/// a multi-image `image/x-icon` blob the renderer's PNG/WebP
/// decoder can't read, and b) the URL frequently 404s or
/// redirects across origins (notion.com → notion.so etc.) which
/// the GPUI image fetcher surfaces as a noisy `ERROR` log on
/// every tab. Instead we route through Google's `s2/favicons`
/// endpoint: it normalises the response to PNG, resolves
/// redirects on Google's side, and serves a `_/` globe glyph
/// when the target site has no favicon at all. Same URL shape
/// every browser dev-tools panel already shows for "favicon".
#[must_use]
pub fn favicon_url(&self) -> Option<String> {
let url = Url::parse(&self.value).ok()?;
if !matches!(url.scheme(), "http" | "https") {
return None;
}
url.host_str()?;
url.join("/favicon.ico").ok().map(|favicon| favicon.to_string())
let host = url.host_str()?;
Some(format!("https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain={host}&sz=64"))
}
}