Favourites Icons in FireFox

Raistlin · 15-07-2005, 23:35

Hi Guys,

I seem to recall that the Favourites icons in IE could easily be deleted (and thus force IE to reload them) if they got confused.

I'm fairly sure that this was something to do with something called favicon (or something similar anyway).

Can someone point me in the right direction for sorting this out in FireFox please?

I've got about half a dozen Favourites all showing the CF logo

Whilst I like the logo very much it would be nicer to have the right icons next to the right Favourites.

Thanks.

Tezcatlipoca · 15-07-2005, 23:54

I've found how to turn them off:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#beh_icons

http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/ffbkmkicon.html

http://www.techsupportforum.com/comp...c/25859-1.html

Don't know if that will fix them when you turn them on again, or if they're still stored somewhere.

Raistlin · 15-07-2005, 23:59

Thanks Matt.

Tried that and they just reappear when I turn them back on again.

I've cleared the cache so they're not stored there. I guess the must be stored somewhere locally, just can't find it

Tezcatlipoca · 16-07-2005, 00:07

Perhaps the favicons are simply remotely linked to from within the actual bookmarks.html file, so they're not actually held on your PC?

If so, then your bookmarks file could be corrupted somehow (if various bookmarks have all been given favicon links to CF!)

Raistlin · 16-07-2005, 00:17

I've had a look in the bookmarks.html file and there are some references in there to images but they're not in any format that I recognise.

They're all listed as:

data:<insert massive string of numbers and letters here>

I've found a favicon picker HERE which allows me to delete the offending articles and then replace them with icons of my choice, the problem is that when I revisit the site it doesn't save the favicon for that site any more.

What a pain this is becoming

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Ok, I take that back.

If you delete them with the favicon picker extension and then revisit the site it does put them back

Looks like that's a way of sorting it out.

Thanks for the help

Tezcatlipoca · 16-07-2005, 00:24

Glad you found a solution in the end