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Favicon
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:42 am
by fleamourian
Can I request a favicon? In Firefox 3.5.1 I just get an ugly empty page icon. I like to cram lots of websites into my toolbar with icons only & no description.
Re: Favicon
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:25 pm
by Marin85
Some time ago there was the eagle. Then it disappeared from my FF for some reason. I don´t know if it was FF or windows 7 or the forum upgrade or all together, but it was nice and I would love to have it back. I´m still looking for any hints on this.
Thanks,
Marin
Re: Favicon
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:35 am
by ZaZ
You can use
favicon picker 2, then use your own.
Re: Favicon
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:41 am
by RealBlackStuff
That Favicon Picker only shows the favicon in your bookmarks, NOT in the address bar.
I've been missing that too. But this is a setting in the Forum software. Bill????
And it was not an eagle but a Cockatoo or Cockateel or some such parrot.
Re: Favicon
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:39 am
by ZaZ
I don't care about it in the address bar. I only wish to differentiate them on the bookmarks sidebar.
Re: Favicon
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:04 pm
by pkiff
Bill has now fixed this, and the favicon should now show up where you normally expect it. You may need to empty your browser cache for the favicon to appear.
Please let us know if the favicon still does not show up for you -- and let us know the exact browser version you are using.
Phil.
Re: Favicon
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:56 pm
by archer6
pkiff wrote:Bill has now fixed this, and the favicon should now show up where you normally expect it.
It's now working for me just fine. Running Firefox ver 3.5.1
Cheers...
Re: Favicon
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:04 pm
by RealBlackStuff
Not showing in FF 3.0.11 even after emptying cache and restart of FF.
UPDATE: after rebooting the PC, the Favicon is now showing. THANKS.
It does show OK in IE 7.
And while we're at it, since 2-3 days I don't get PM notifications any more
Re: Favicon
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:30 pm
by RTAdams89
Not showing up in IE7. I looked at the page source code, and there isn't any of the typical FavIcon code in the head section...
Re: Favicon
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:02 am
by yak
RTAdams89 wrote:Not showing up in IE7. I looked at the page source code, and there isn't any of the typical FavIcon code in the head section...
Before favicons were "standardized" and appropriate LINK tag was introduced into the HEAD section of HTML, the icon was simply put in the root directory of the server and called favicon.ico. The browser simply tries that if no favicon info is found in the HTML. That's the case here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/favicon.ico
Honestly, I never was able to see a parrot, or any other bird, on this favicon. It looks like some x-ray picture of a head or something to me.
Re: Favicon
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:24 am
by RealBlackStuff
This is a stylized version of "Peachy" if I remember correctly, one of Bill Morrow's favorites!
Re: Favicon
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:03 am
by pkiff
RTAdams89 wrote:Not showing up in IE7.
Are you sure you cleared your browser cache fully? You may need to reboot as well as empty the cache. It shows up on my version of IE7 now, and it didn't used to.
RTAdams89 wrote:I looked at the page source code, and there isn't any of the typical FavIcon code in the head section...
yak's explanation of the favicon code is correct. By default, if you provide no details about the favicon in the <head> of your web page, then IE7 and practically all other browsers will look for a file named "favicon.ico" in the root directory.
Phil.
Re: Favicon
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:35 pm
by Marin85
Nice, it now works for me too (FF3 3.0.12)
Thanks!
RealBlackStuff wrote:This is a stylized version of "Peachy" if I remember correctly, one of Bill Morrow's favorites!
You are right. I have never looked so carefully into it, it appears quite small on my WUXGA screen