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For some reason, it actually refetches the favicon with every keystroke. Which isn't a ton of traffic, but it's certainly excessive.

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This is a Chrome bug, it does not happen in Firefox. I replaced the icon with a 16x16 icon instead of 256x and now it also behaves as expected in Chrome. Thanks for the report! :)

I hadn't caught that, thanks! I'll look into it when I get a chance!

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