Comment 8 for bug 670599

Neither Nautilus nor Eye of GNOME display .ico file thumbnails that are visible in SeaMonkey or Firefox browsers, particularly 16x16-pixel favicons. All the files in question can be opened and viewed in GIMP, but even when re-saved with GIMP, Nautilus and EOG still can't view them. It appears to be a code commonality problem between Nautilus and EOG. I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS.

favicon.ico files are used extensively on the World Wide Web. Lack of support in viewing and browsing .ico files makes Web development work awkward.