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Low resolution Duckduckgo logo on the default home page

Asked by Lazaro Morales on 2019-11-28

Any reason why the Duckduckgo icon on the default home page search box
is using the 16px version instead of the 32px needed for the size
of that search box?

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Lazaro Morales
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2020-09-26
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2019-11-28
actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #1

Does it happen in other browsers?

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy firefox

Thanks

Lazaro Morales (lazarom) said : #2

Only in Firefox. CSS property shows:

--newtab-search-icon: url(blob:null/86927627-0c29-41b0-9604-cea57b14d887);

which is a low resolution 16px icon but on other platforms 'about:home' uses this image instead:

--newtab-search-icon: url(moz-extension://76016655-ab29-4751-b93e-e4040c82e36b/favicon.ico);

Thanks.

=== Requested output ===

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Release: 19.10
Codename: eoan
Linux univac 5.3.0-23-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 09:22:33 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
firefox:
  Installed: 70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  Candidate: 70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     69.0.3+build1-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #3

Ok.........does it affect other browsers?

Lazaro Morales (lazarom) said : #4

It doesn't. It only affects Firefox as I said earlier.

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #5

If you log in as guest or a new user, is it the same?

Lazaro Morales (lazarom) said : #6

It is the same. Something is changed when Firefox gets re-packaged or re-compiled for Ubuntu. If you download
the vanilla version from Mozilla you will see it is using the right icon.

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #7

The I suggest you report a bug. If it's the same with a fresh profile then it's the application rather than settings. You can start the process with:

ubuntu-bug firefox

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #8

Thankfully it's purely cosmetic and doesn't actually break anything. Maybe you can look online where the image is stored and replace it, test then update your own bug with a fix.

Lazaro Morales (lazarom) said : #9

This has been fixed on recent Firefox versions.

Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : #10

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Release: 19.10
Codename: eoan

You have to be aware that Ubuntu 19.10 is not supported any more. You should upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 in due course.
see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases for details about the supported releases.

This proobably is also the reason that your version of firefox is outdated (should be 80.* and not 70.*)