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.
Servo already publishes the live page title in every `LiveFrameReport`
but the renderer was dropping it on the floor — tabs that navigated
away from `ely://new-tab` kept showing "New Tab" forever, and there
was no favicon visible anywhere in the sidebar.
Add `BrowserCore::set_tab_title` and switch `set_tab_favicon_key` to
return `Ok(true)` only when the value actually changed; both methods
mirror the new value into the matching history entry so the History
page stays in lockstep. Derive the canonical `/favicon.ico` URL from
the loaded URL on `UrlText` and store it as the tab's `favicon_key`.
In the surface layer, every Ready frame now emits a
`WebSurfacePageMetadata` change alongside any `WebSurfaceUrlChange`,
and the controller applies title + favicon URL together. Render the
sidebar tab row's favicon via GPUI's HTTP image loader (falling
through to the URL-derived glyph for `ely://` pages, file URLs, and
hosts without a /favicon.ico endpoint).
ZacharyZhang-NY