Firefox automatically requests a favicon, even if a site's HTML doesn't declare one. If the site doesn't have one, that request results in a 404, which creates an error in the dev console. That false error can be distracting to devs who are making changes to a block and watching for errors.
Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't provide a good way to disable that behavior, so the standard workaround is to add a null favicon.
Firefox automatically requests a favicon, even if a site's HTML doesn't declare one. If the site doesn't have one, that request results in a
404
, which creates an error in the dev console. That false error can be distracting to devs who are making changes to a block and watching for errors.Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't provide a good way to disable that behavior, so the standard workaround is to add a null favicon.