Why is Firefox 5 not storing bookmark ICONS for some (many) web sites?

Since installing FF5 some sites do not have their icons stored in the bookmarks, for example:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/
http://arstechnica.com/
Even though the site icon displays in the address bar. Seems like a bug. I do have FlashGot, AdBlock & Ghost installed, but I can't see why they would affect this. Many sites still work OK, eg:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Stopping and restarting doesn't fix the issue. Thanks & regards, Mick.

You seem to have the general.useragent.override pref set to an empty string. 
You can reset that pref to the default via the right-click context menu to remove that override.

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''I get the "pointer" mouse cursor when mousing over the blue bar, and I can click on it and scroll the contents as with any other scroll bar, but the bar doesn't move up and down in sync with the content being scrolled: it just stays put. If I do not slide straight down, the blue bar may twitch a pixel left or right.''
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