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Why doesn't Firefox stick my favicon in the bookmark?

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DaisyHead

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I just launched my website with a favicon using the favicon.ico file in the public folder. Firefox displays this favicon just fine in the address bar and in the browsing tab. However, when I bookmark it, it doesn't show in the bookmark? How come? I tried deleting the bookmark, clear the cache, quit Firefox and reload with no success. Who knows why?

BTW, IE bookmarked it with the favicon with no problem.

Thanks.
 
You have to bookmark it and then click the bookmark and then after the page has fully opened the favicon is added.

It's an annoying bug.
 
Try this: Go to the address bar with this page open and drag the link to the bookmarks toolbar and then click it, mine opens a new tab.

I just did this and the Anandtech favicon is added.
 
I did your experiment and it worked great .... for the Anandtech site, but not for my website. I can see my favicon in the address bar and the tab but it will not stick to the bookmarks or the bookmark toolbar. 🙁 🙁 🙁
 
I notice Firefox is doing this to other websites as well in a random manner. Take eBay for instance. I can see the favicon in the address bar and the tab but not in the bookmark toolbar.
 
Favicons and bookmarks in FF is buggy all round. I have the same favicons for two or more completely different sites in my bookmarks toolbar for some unknown reason. One unique icon becomes the fav.ico for another bookmark. Weird . I live with it. I remember putting favicons on my web sites and then having to wait a few days for them to work properly. (again no explanation, just weird)

Try:

Install and run CCleaner to fully clean your cache etc. That's a link to the version at MajorGeeks with no Yahoo toolbar.

Also, the code in your head should be:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">


 
I just remembered another thing I did to get a favicon working.
I used this line instead of what I suggested in the last post. Link with URL.

 
mulletgut,
I tried the line of code you suggested and guess what: I got a favicon, but it's not my favicon, it's the Firefox favicon. I can't win. 🙁
 
Sorry that code I gave you was cut and paste from a post I did intinally without the codebox so the forums put the [L] tags in there. It should be
 
DaisyHead, I'm currently looking at the same problem with my site: it shows up in the address bar and tabs, but not bookmarks. It works fine IE, just not FF. I don't know what the rules are about posting links to your own site yet, so I'll use third-party examples.

Check out pcper.com and bookmark it. Click the bookmark - won't update add the favicon in FF2, right? Now do the same thing for bit-tech.net. That one will work, right? I've checked their code - neither includes the "link" meta information in the doc header. They've both simply dropped the favicon.ico file into their root directory, which is an equally valid way of doing it (theoretically). I've done the same, and gone with/without the link tag to no avail.

I'm really scratching my head over this one.
 
IC Matt, if it's any consolation, (and icrontic.com is the site you're talking about) the favicon works properly in the address bar and bookmarks for Opera. 🙂
 
Well, I am glad about that! I guess that narrows it down to a FF bug then. I still wish I knew the rhyme or reason behind the bug though so I could try to work around it.
 
I was having the same issue and came here to find out if anyone had a fix. After some investigating I found that the file (favicon.ico) uploaded had more than one format (i.e. 24x24, 48x48, etc). When I deleted those formats the favicon worked as it was intended. Check the program you use for creating the icon and make sure it's only being saved in 16x16 format.
 
I tried this and it didn't fix it. :-/ What software are you using? I tried IconCool Editor off of Download.com, saved in 16x16 ico format and still couldn't get it to show up. Does it matter what format the GIF I'm importing is in? Thanks for posting!
 
OK, looks like it needs to be in 16x16 only and no more than 32 colors for it to work in Firefox. Cheers everyone.
 
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