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fleamourian · #1 Post by **fleamourian** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:42 am

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.

Marin85 · #2 Post by **Marin85** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:25 pm

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

#3 Post by **ZaZ** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:35 am

You can use favicon picker 2, then use your own.

#4 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:41 am

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.

#5 Post by **ZaZ** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:39 am

I don't care about it in the address bar. I only wish to differentiate them on the bookmarks sidebar.

#6 Post by **pkiff** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:04 pm

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.

#7 Post by **archer6** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:56 pm

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...

#8 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:04 pm

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

RTAdams89 · #9 Post by **RTAdams89** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:30 pm

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...

yak · #10 Post by **yak** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:02 am

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.

#11 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:24 am

This is a stylized version of "Peachy" if I remember correctly, one of Bill Morrow's favorites!

#12 Post by **pkiff** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:03 am

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.

Marin85 · #13 Post by **Marin85** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:35 pm

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

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