benjamingr/favicon-bug
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Demonstrates Chrome/Firefox/Safari download 1GB favicons
4 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2015-06-15 · latest 2026-06-20
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…I made 11 years ago - it crashes some browsers - wanna guess how long it took each one to fix it :D https://github.com/benjamingr/favicon-bug
comment by inglor · 2026-06-20 · in I Stored a Website in a Favicon -
Only on firefox and chrome since they fixed it https://github.com/benjamingr/favicon-bug
comment by inglor · 2015-09-02 · in Biggest image in the smallest space -
it's also working on iOS 8.1.2. As soon as you tap on the share icon, the download starts: https://github.com/benjamingr/favicon-bug/pull/2
comment by ubanholzer · 2015-06-15 · in Favicon bug -
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Favicon bugstory by inglor · 2015-06-15 · 93 comments