Inserted link from website without favicon renders with overlapping text

masonic

What I did:

Pasted a URL for a website that does not have a favicon and pressed Enter.

What Should happen:

A hyperlink should be added without side-effects.

What happened:

This happened: https://handbook.fca.org.uk/glossary/G2892

And when I carried on with my reply, the overlapping text made the post very difficult to read.

What I see above:

The link includes the following image tag: <img style="height: 1em; width: 1em; margin-right: 6px;" src="https://handbook.fca.org.uk/glossary/favicon.ico" role="decoration" alt="Site favicon" tabindex="-1">

Where website does not have a favicon.ico file, the alt text "Site favicon" is placed in the embed link instead of the image.

Why it matters:

It makes posts unreadable and looks awful.

Device/Browser:

Linux / Firefox and Android / Firefox

MSE_Stephen

This looks like it's linked to a similar issue I've already reported where the 'Rich Link' tries add parameter text to a favicon's url and some sites don't like that. Including ours:

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/favicon.ico?unique=123

(Broken)

vs

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/favicon.ico

(Works)

I've added this problem to the bug report