Favicon Picker
Herb
make one's own?
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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
Beauregard T. Shagnasty
> Is there a list of favicons to pick from somewhere, or does one have
> to make one's own?
One normally makes one for one's own web site, rather than copy
something that does not reflect that site.
I see you already have one for the site in your sig .. the "HE" graphic
saved as "favicon.ico".
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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows
Herb
> Herb wrote:
>
>> Is there a list of favicons to pick from somewhere, or does one have
>> to make one's own?
>
> One normally makes one for one's own web site, rather than copy
> something that does not reflect that site.
>
> I see you already have one for the site in your sig .. the "HE" graphic
> saved as "favicon.ico".
>
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I have one for my own site, but I want to allocate suitable
favicons in my Bookmarks Toolbar for sites that don't have favicons so
that I can delete the accompanying text and create more room on the toolbar.
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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
David McRitchie
> Herb wrote:
>> Is there a list of favicons to pick from somewhere, or does one have
>> to make one's own?
>
> One normally makes one for one's own web site, rather than copy
> something that does not reflect that site.
>
> I see you already have one for the site in your sig .. the "HE" graphic
> saved as "favicon.ico".
Describing how you actually want to use it would be helpful in getting
a solution. You can design your own for a website. But I expect the
request is for overriding or assigning a favicon to a site, or for picking
an icon for Firefox beta versions. The request is a bit vague.
Excel to HTML conversions
Has links to Favicon generators, HTML-Kit for instance includes
one.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xl2html.htm
Quick Launch additions for Firefox Usage
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/quicklaunch.htm
Find icons on your computer
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&num=50&newwindow=1&q=find+icons+on+your+computer&tbs=&lr=&as_filetype=&aq=4&oq=find+icons+&aqi=g10
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HTH,
David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm
David McRitchie
> Yes, I have one for my own site, but I want to allocate suitable
> favicons in my Bookmarks Toolbar for sites that don't have favicons so
> that I can delete the accompanying text and create more room on the toolbar.
do a search at addons.
Favicon Picker 2
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3176
or use a google search
site:addons.mozilla.org inurl:en-US/firefox/addon -inurl:collection favicon
David McRitchie
Speaking of which Google sure destroyed a lot of usefulness of their
specialized features by reassigning all applications to one bad favicon,
makes seeing which Google search is in use on the search bar more
difficult for those that hadn't been using Firefox before Google did that.
Eustace
That's what I have done with my Bookmarks Toolbar:
https://files.nyu.edu/emf202/public/temp/FF.jpg
The favicons are either from the websites, from the websites with colors
changed (using Irfanview), from icons of diverse origin which I have
resized using the Image Resizer Powertoy or which I have created myself
(I have a folder "My Icons" where I put them). Note on the left the two
folders to which I have assigned letters since I couldn't assign icons.
When I need a new icon/favicon, I start by googling first. If I don't
find what I want, in my other computer I used to make it with
Presentations. Now I have OOo, which can't do what Presentations could
(edit an image pixel by pixel), neither can Windows Paint, and I have
been looking for a suitable replacement.
emf
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propman
> Presentations. Now I have OOo, which can't do what Presentations could
> (edit an image pixel by pixel), neither can Windows Paint, and I have
> been looking for a suitable replacement.
FWIW... :-)
http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/
Herb
> Is there a list of favicons to pick from somewhere, or does one have to
> make one's own?
Thanks for all the replies.
In summary, is it correct to say that Favicon Picker does indeed enable
the user to assign favicons to Bookmarks Toolbar items, but it doesn't
actually provide a 'picking source'.
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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
Herb
> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" ...
>> Herb wrote:
>>> Is there a list of favicons to pick from somewhere, or does one have
>>> to make one's own?
>>
>> One normally makes one for one's own web site, rather than copy
>> something that does not reflect that site.
>>
>> I see you already have one for the site in your sig .. the "HE" graphic
>> saved as "favicon.ico".
>
> Describing how you actually want to use it would be helpful in getting
> a solution. You can design your own for a website. But I expect the
> request is for overriding or assigning a favicon to a site, or for picking
> an icon for Firefox beta versions. The request is a bit vague.
>
> Excel to HTML conversions
> Has links to Favicon generators, HTML-Kit for instance includes
> one.
> http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xl2html.htm
>
> Quick Launch additions for Firefox Usage
> http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/quicklaunch.htm
>
> Find icons on your computer
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&num=50&newwindow=1&q=find+icons+on+your+computer&tbs=&lr=&as_filetype=&aq=4&oq=find+icons+&aqi=g10
>
Thanks for your reply - I'm amazed how many .ico files there are on my
computer - 1,049, no less! =-O
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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
Herb
Thanks for your helpful reply.
A couple more questions:
1. Thanks for the reminder about the Image Resizer Powertoy - am I right
in assuming that you find it more convenient for this purpose than
Irfanview, for example?
2. How did you assign the letters to the two folders and got rid of the
standard folder icon?
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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
Herb
Another question, sorry.
How do you save icons from websites - for example the TinyURL icon at
http://tinyurl.com/ ?
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Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
David Pyles
take a look at the source of the page and find the favicon tag in the
header (<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/gif">)
and use that path to download the favicon to the browser. Then "Save
Image as..."
Dave Pyles
Herb
Ron Hunter
Grin.
Eustace
It just happened that we have been thinking along similar lines, but I
had started thinking first!
> A couple more questions:
>
> 1. Thanks for the reminder about the Image Resizer Powertoy - am I right
> in assuming that you find it more convenient for this purpose than
> Irfanview, for example?
To be sincere, I haven't explored Irfanview and have been using it only
for specific tasks that I needed - mainly to change colors, to save
images as icons, and to specify transparent color - tasks that I
couldn't do with Presentations. And I don't remember which one I had
downloaded first... Anyway, in the future I have to spend some time with
Irfanview.
> 2. How did you assign the letters to the two folders and got rid of the
> standard folder icon?
I really do not remember but there was no problem. Just now I bookmarked
all the open Tabs and chose to put them on the toolbar without
specifying a name, and there was no icon, just an arrow to open the
folder. The question I now have is how to assign the standard folder
icon to a group of bookmarks if I decide to do so...
Your other question had been answered already.
Cheers,
David McRitchie
I don't know if you are assigning favicons only to bookmarks
and want folders as words, kind of think you want the two
folders as exceptions to other folders.
So this is presented more as an alternative to what you are
doing / planning.
On my bookmarks toolbar I remove all favicons
changing everything to simply 1-4 characters in the name through the
bookmark properties (right click on bookmark, or click on the start)then I style
folders as blue characters and bookmark/bookmarklets
as red characters. see
Bookmarks Toolbar Blue/Folders, Red/Bookmarks | userstyles.org
http://userstyles.org/styles/9091
Look at the code.
I really have only about 5 bookmarks on toolbar the rest are folders
on of the folders contains most of my bookmarks with a keyword.
(not to be confused with tags).
If you look at the pictures with correct scaling you can fit twice as
many folders/bookmarks in the same space without the folder
icons and favicons, and the height of the toolbar is 2/3 height of
of the normal bookmarks toolbar.
To get a better idea of what my toolbars actually look like see
Navigation/Location Bar Minimal Height | userstyles.org
http://userstyles.org/styles/9349
and
http://img10.imageshack.us/i/tabbedbrowsinginfirefox.png/
http://yfrog.com/05ghydestorms20091030p
be sure to click on the plus magnifier cursor to see full size images
The only bookmarklets I currently have on the Bookmarks Toolbar
are lower number(<), higher number(>), fix Google Groups list (gg:fix),
Google Voice (GV), Page Zipper (Pz), and Spell Check(Sp)
all of the rest are folders. the K folder contains 570 bookmarks
with a keyword + some subfolders with some reference files.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/lessons/intro/k.html
Basically most of my bookmarks use is with keywords or with
assistance from the location bar autocomplete.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/lessons/intro/fx3_intro.htm
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search
Eustace
> "Eustace" <emf...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:YtKdnbu4KLDF32bX...@mozilla.org...
>> On 2009-11-10 11:15 Herb wrote:
>>> 2. How did you assign the letters to the two folders and got rid of
>>> the standard folder icon?
>>
>> I really do not remember but there was no problem. Just now I
>> bookmarked all the open Tabs and chose to put them on the toolbar
>> without specifying a name, and there was no icon, just an arrow to
>> open the folder. The question I now have is how to assign the standard
>> folder icon to a group of bookmarks if I decide to do so...
>
> I don't know if you are assigning favicons only to bookmarks
> and want folders as words, kind of think you want the two folders as
> exceptions to other folders.
> So this is presented more as an alternative to what you are
> doing / planning.
I see that your conceptual framework is very different from mine. I have
only 2 folders in the bookmarks toolbar: the original one with newsfeed,
and a second where I can hastily drop in links to check later (at least
that is the main idea)... I would have prefered to have icons for the
folders or folders of different colors, but somehow along the way the
folder icons were lost altogether, and have been using only to capital
letters for them.
>
> On my bookmarks toolbar I remove all favicons
> changing everything to simply 1-4 characters in the name through the
> bookmark properties (right click on bookmark, or click on the start)then
> I style
> folders as blue characters and bookmark/bookmarklets
> as red characters. see
> Bookmarks Toolbar Blue/Folders, Red/Bookmarks | userstyles.org
> http://userstyles.org/styles/9091
> Look at the code.
> I really have only about 5 bookmarks on toolbar the rest are folders
> on of the folders contains most of my bookmarks with a keyword.
> (not to be confused with tags).
I haven't sat down to learn about keywords or tags. My first impression
when I came across them was that I didn't need them. At one point,
however, I plan to read the FF manual, to make sure I am not missing
some possibilities that I could use. It's something I occasionally feel
I have do with different software, though of course the easy way is to
plunge in counting on one's intuition and acquired (considerable over
the years) knowledge.
> If you look at the pictures with correct scaling you can fit twice as
> many folders/bookmarks in the same space without the folder
> icons and favicons, and the height of the toolbar is 2/3 height of
> of the normal bookmarks toolbar.
Because of my bad eyesight, I normally do not want the height of the
toolbars or the icons to be too small. In fact I have increased the
height of the bars at the Windows so something I find comfortable.
> To get a better idea of what my toolbars actually look like see
> Navigation/Location Bar Minimal Height | userstyles.org
> http://userstyles.org/styles/9349
> and http://img10.imageshack.us/i/tabbedbrowsinginfirefox.png/
> http://yfrog.com/05ghydestorms20091030p
> be sure to click on the plus magnifier cursor to see full size images
>
> The only bookmarklets I currently have on the Bookmarks Toolbar
> are lower number(<), higher number(>), fix Google Groups list
> (gg:fix), Google Voice (GV), Page Zipper (Pz), and Spell Check(Sp)
> all of the rest are folders. the K folder contains 570 bookmarks
> with a keyword + some subfolders with some reference files.
> http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/lessons/intro/k.html
I also have a few bookmarklets, like one to assign white on blue colors,
font and font size, a couple to get words to check in online
dictionaries. I also have a link to pdf map of the New York subway
system (that opens in Adobe Reader). Another link is to a simple file
with the email addresses of friends to whom I most often email stories I
find while browsing - it's much simpler than opening the TB addressbook
etc. Each computer user that is not satisfied with the provided options
finds different ways of doing things...
>
> Basically most of my bookmarks use is with keywords or with
> assistance from the location bar autocomplete.
>
> http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/lessons/intro/fx3_intro.htm
> http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search
I have to say that I find what you do difficult to understand, I suspect
because of my lack of familiarity with using keywords. Maybe at one
point in the future this will change, who knows?
emf
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