As per the above description, marking this as a Feature Request and changing the status to Untriaged, as the reporter wants the favicon icon of the website on the desktop on dragging and dropping the url.

Thanks..

Sounds like a platform integration request.

FWIW, I have no idea if favicons come in the same sizes as Windows desktop icons.

Initial triage discussion:

Supporting this in Chrome is plausible. 

The Internet Shortcut files (*.url) support specifying a URL to refer to a favicon. Sites would need to make sure they have a Windows icon file available (*.ico) as the favicon and the Windows Shell will pick it up.

Sending to rpop@ for initial awareness and feature triage.

 Issue 827846  has been merged into this issue.

Also affects Linux.

The side effect is that this Chromium shortcuts hard to distinguish one from each other.

The icon data is actually in the shortcut, but it doesn't work. This looks rather like a bug, not a feature as mentioned in the panel.

+Mark, but I think we should definitely look into it. My desktop is a horrifying grid of identical Chrome icons right this minute.

It sounds like the hard part is what to do when the best favicon is 16x16 and the windows app icon is much bigger than that. 

robliao@ what happens if 
a) the web site does not have an ico file available?
b) there is no network connection so the windows shell cannot reach the site?

Responding to #7
Both a) and b) resolve to the same failure case.
If a website does not have an ICO available, the icon of the original association will display (generally the default browser).

The specified details are available here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776784(v=vs.85).aspx

Playing around with the format, the shell is a little finicky on when it decides to pick up the new icon and when it doesn't. I'm guessing there might be an additional shell notification required to kick start the machinery.

You can turn it pixel art 
<https://i62.servimg.com/u/f62/16/19/87/90/favico10.png>.

Alberto <https://es20490446e.wordpress.com>

Got it. Is this something we can implement behind a flag to try out? As rpop@ noted, I can't tell if this will be an improvement or not. Concerns that I'd like to try in real life:

* what it feels like to have *all* my icons that used to be chrome turn into favicons
* what it feels like to have some icons change and some not (due to network or missing favicon)?

Adding rob back because he made the mistake of answering questions :) :) :P

Leonard, we can close this out as it is launched (and will be overridden with MD refresh), correct?

Assuming c#13 was meant for one of the Mac RTL bugs? I'm probably not the right person for a Windows issue :)