custom search engine icons

[Former user]

Hi there

I found the search engine icons in bookmarks are different from which are displayed

shall we custom search engine icons or just be the same with official icons

[Andrey Shemetov]

Firefox doesn't allow access to stored bookmark icons, so for the most popular sites SelectionSK carries icons as part of the extension. For the rest of the sites extension tries to resolve icon over internet. In some cases icons will be different, but such solution has number of benefits:

• icons will be shown even if local machine or local network policies will block request for icon resolution
• icons will be shown faster because they will be downloaded from local hard drive rather then over internet
• embedded icons are .svg or .png, so have better quality when scaled

Technically I can disable custom icons for the most popular sites, but I think it will lead to worse user experience. Extension uses bookmarks as a storage with tree-like structure and as a sync item, actual icons less important from my point of view.