Create a NavigationEntry for the initial blank page.

components/favicon/content/content_favicon_driver.cc

 // Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "components/favicon/content/content_favicon_driver.h"
 
 #include "base/bind.h"
 #include "components/favicon/content/favicon_url_util.h"
 #include "components/favicon/core/favicon_service.h"
 #include "components/favicon/core/favicon_url.h"
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 void ContentFaviconDriver::NotifyFaviconUpdated(bool icon_url_changed) {
   FaviconDriverImpl::NotifyFaviconUpdated(icon_url_changed);
   web_contents()->NotifyNavigationStateChanged(content::INVALIDATE_TYPE_TAB);
 }
 
 void ContentFaviconDriver::DidUpdateFaviconURL(
     const std::vector<content::FaviconURL>& candidates) {
   DCHECK(!candidates.empty());
 
-  // Ignore the update if there is no last committed navigation entry. This can
-  // occur when loading an initially blank page.
   content::NavigationEntry* entry =
       web_contents()->GetController().GetLastCommittedEntry();
-  if (!entry)
-    return;
-
   favicon_urls_ = candidates;
   OnUpdateFaviconURL(entry->GetURL(),
                      FaviconURLsFromContentFaviconURLs(candidates));
 }
 
 void ContentFaviconDriver::DidStartNavigationToPendingEntry(
     const GURL& url,
     content::NavigationController::ReloadType reload_type) {
   if (reload_type == content::NavigationController::NO_RELOAD ||
       IsOffTheRecord())
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   // redownloaded.
   GURL url = details.entry->GetURL();
   if (url != bypass_cache_page_url_)
     bypass_cache_page_url_ = GURL();
 
   // Get the favicon, either from history or request it from the net.
   FetchFavicon(url);
 }
 
 }  // namespace favicon