# Bookmark Icons Loader

> A Firefox extension that loads all websites in your bookmarks (including nested folders) to ensure their favicons are properly cached by the browser.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/bookmark-icons-loader](https://chrome-stats.com/d/bookmark-icons-loader)

## Overview

- **ID:** `bookmark-icons-loader`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** RealMarijn
- **Category:** bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 450
- **Weekly downloads:** 42
- **Rating:** 4.44 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-04
- **First published:** 2025-07-20
- **Size:** 33 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bookmark-icons-loader/)

## Description

A Firefox extension that loads all websites in your bookmarks (including nested folders) to ensure their favicons are properly cached by the browser. Useful for a freshly installed Firefox instance that does not have the bookmark favicons loaded.

Features:
- Load all bookmarks, including those in nested folders
- Built-in delays and timeouts to prevent crashes (can be changed in extension settings)
- Set a batch size to load multiple bookmarks at once (can be changed in extension settings)
- Real-time progress updates on the extension popup page
- Closes tabs after loading

## Rankings

- #5,317 — Overall
- #179 — Bookmarks
- #34 — icon
- #41 — bookmark
- #65 — bookmarks
- #76 — include

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `bookmarks`
- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/bookmark-icons-loader)