Issue 85806 in chromium: Can't delete favicons from cache

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Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 Area-Undefined OS-Windows

New issue 85806 by step...@vierkant.org: Can't delete favicons from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Chrome Version : 12.0.742.91
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 5:
Firefox 4.x: OK
IE 7/8/9: OK

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open a website with a favicon
2. Delete the favicon from the web server
3. Clear Chrome's cache
4. Visit the website again

What is the expected result?
Since the favicon is deleted from the web server (and from the cache ;-)),
there must be no favicon anymore

What happens instead?
You'll see the old (deleted) favicon.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.30
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.91 Safari/534.30

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Comment #1 on issue 85806 by step...@vierkant.org: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

See this thread:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=1e0c60af2d48dda1&hl=en

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Comment #4 on issue 85806 by mega...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

That is what I meant, sorry I just skimmed the thread to be honest. >_> It
looked like the focus of discussion was elsewhere.

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Comment #6 on issue 85806 by downboun...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Having the same problem on Fedora 15, it's not an OS-specific issue. 24
hours after changing DNS for a site, the new server page loads with the old
server's favicon. In the attached screenshot, you'll note the page is a
Godaddy.com parked page, while the favicon is from SmartName.com, the
previous server. Can someone point to the mechanism in the SQLite
database code which is responsible for storing favicons?

Google Chrome 13.0.782.112 (Official Build 95650)
OS Linux
WebKit 535.1 (branches/chromium/782@91904)
JavaScript V8 3.3.10.25
Flash 10.3 r183
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.112 Safari/535.1
Command Line /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --flag-switches-begin
--flag-switches-end
Executable Path /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
Profile Path /home/qzwxec/.config/google-chrome/Default

Attachments:
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Comment #7 on issue 85806 by step...@vierkant.org: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Come on, how hard can it be?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #9 on issue 85806 by han...@eyealike.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Annoying. When I opened Chrome the other day, while using inflight wifi on
Southwest Airlines, Chrome restored all tabs but each page got redirected
by the inflight Wifi router to some Southwest "Agree to TOS" page. This
page had a favicon.ico whereas the site of the original URL didn't. Since
then (back home) I can't get rid of the Southwest favicon for these pages
anymore.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #11 on issue 85806 by g...@globalnet.co.uk: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Yes - I see this too, on Chrome 20.0.1096.1 -- it needs sorting!

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #12 on issue 85806 by kreetheb...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

This issue also affects Mac OS.
18.0.1025.163 (Developer Build 132135 Mac OS X)

It is especially irritating when switching between development servers on
localhost with different favicons.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #13 on issue 85806 by rich...@richardthornton.com: Can't delete

favicons from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

I use the bookmarks bar without names (just favicons) from my top twenty
sites. One site doesn't have a favicon, but along the way Chrome picked up
another site's in its place, in this case a YouTube one. Many months later
YouTube updated their own favicon which has correctly updated in the
bookmarks bar, however this other site still sits there with the old
YouTube one.

This appears to be a very minor flaw that has existed through many versions
of Chrome (I'm currently on 20.0.1123.4 dev-m). And I completely concur
with Comment 5 above. This is a difficult one to explain to
clients/colleagues.

Attachments:
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Comment #15 on issue 85806 by metaed: Can't delete favicons from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

@daniel Looking at the problem from the Chrome client side, if you are
willing to create a new Chrome user profile, that should take care of it.

If you are also the publisher, there is another option. Declare the favicon
in the page metadata, incorporating an arbitrary query string into the
favicon URL:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico?foo">

If you subsequently refresh the page, then the favicon is reloaded along
with the page. A simple F5 refresh will do after a Chrome restart. To avoid
the need for a restart, it seems a Ctrl+F5 refresh will do. At least that
is the behavior I am seeing in Chrome 20.0.1132.8 dev-m.

Note that this does not solve the problem for publishers. There is
currently no way for a publisher to let Chrome know that its "cache" of the
favicon is out of date. Even using the technique above, a client that loads
the page from cache will get the wrong favicon. Not to mention that
incorporating a query string into a static URL is wasteful of bandwidth.

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Updates:
Status: Available
Labels: -Area-Undefined Area-Internals OS-Mac

Comment #16 on issue 85806 by v...@chromium.org: Can't delete favicons from
cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

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Comment #17 on issue 85806 by bonniesh...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

I have a development server that I use to create websites. When I am
finished with one site and it has been moved to the live environment I
reset the server and start another build in the sandbox. I did so tonight,
only to find that the old favicon was still persistent. I went through all
the standard troubleshooting procedures before realizing it was a browser
specific problem and finding my way to this thread.

I spent an hour of development time figuring this out. I charge $50 an hour.

This has got to be fixed.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #18 on issue 85806 by dwi...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

This is a ridiculous problem with Chrome. Such a good browser and such a
silly thing not to be able to fix, after all this feedback from web
developers and so much time.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #19 on issue 85806 by dannydim...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

In the same boat here. Pretty ridiculous Google can't fix something like
this by now. As a web developer this is a load of bull Google. Pull your
head out of your ass and fix this!

Thanks for the wasted time.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #20 on issue 85806 by melvyn.m...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

I have Google chrome on Win7. Favicon just changed to old one (blue with
white g)for me, too.
(it also changed on Explorer, but new one is on Firefox). Driving me crazy,
but thanks for the info.

Thanks in advance for any update info.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #21 on issue 85806 by james.r....@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

I just forced chrome to load a new favicon by navigating to the favicon's
url, eg, http://localhost:8000/favicon.ico, and refreshing the page.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #22 on issue 85806 by mega...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

@jamrs.r doesn't work if the page has no favicon. The old one will persist.

There was a bug waaaay back where favicons would become attached to
unassociated websites. I still have a gmail icon on a website that has
nothing to do with gmail.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #23 on issue 85806 by bmdsher...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Amtrak has a landing page when you try to use the internet on the train.
Any website you go to gets redirected to a terms of service page. Once you
hit the agree button they send you to the page you originally wanted.

Somehow in this process the page I had originally tried to visit got stuck
with the Amtrak terms of service page favicon.

Windows 7/Chrome 22.0.1229.94

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Comment #24 on issue 85806 by quietby...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Running into the same issue during development and found a very useable
workaround for this one:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2208933/how-do-i-force-a-favicon-refresh

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #25 on issue 85806 by strba.ri...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

There is no solution for deleted favicon in that link. The old icon persits
to me to. I made full transparent favicon.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #31 on issue 85806 by unsa...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

I was able to force refresh using this answer from SO:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico?v=2" />

In combination with above answer of
visiting "http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico?v=2" directly, after the
upload/force refresh.

In my case I used a transparent icon to remove the existing favicon. I've
attached it for any that want to go that route, it's mip-mapped to
128/64/32/16^2 to cover a wide variety of browsers/devices.

Attachments:
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Comment #32 on issue 85806 by pbak...@groupon.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
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I was able to solve this in OSX by deleting the favicon database and
restarting Chrome.

I deleted:

~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Favicons
~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Favicons-journal

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Comment #36 on issue 85806 by johnsond...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
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Comment #37 on issue 85806 by Jones...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

I'm having an issue too - Whats happening is that I can remove the fav
icons, but then they are re-downloaded via account sync on Chrome. I'm
unable to find a way to disable fav-icon syncing, or to delete the data
from the cloud

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #38 on issue 85806 by w...@guardiancomputing.com: Can't delete

favicons from cache
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

How many years do people have to complain before you fix this trivial yet
completely annoying bug?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #39 on issue 85806 by wdeurh...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
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This bug was reported June 11 2011. It is now August 2014: 3 years later
and the bug is still there! I cannot believe this.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #40 on issue 85806 by d...@dynamicdan.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Same problem today. REALLY frustrating when trying to test and update
favicons.
In my case the favicon is reverting to the default or first loaded favicon.
I'm using JS to add a new favicon link tag which works fine so long as
caching doesn't screw everything up.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #42 on issue 85806 by madr...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

At this point, i am pretty sure they just don't care. Same with the now
insane amounts of ram chrome is using. For me the fix was simple, went back
to Firefox...

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #43 on issue 85806 by pcar...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Goodness...I had the same issue. Guess what? I cleared the IE cache and
then Chrome picked up the new favicon. Maybe this is why Chrome has not
fixed this because they rely on IE to clear its cache (do they use
something related to IE).

Give this a try.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #44 on issue 85806 by pcar...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Confirmed. I visited another site in IE (hard browser refresh) and got an
updated favicon. Then when I visited it in Chrome, it finally updated.
That is twice that updating IE's favicon got Chrome to update it.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #45 on issue 85806 by Jher...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

I just had this happen and it is incredibly frustrating. For some reason
Chrome wouldn't assign a favicon to a bookmark for a client's site (only a
piece of paper). Then, after visiting Gmail, Chrome replaced the paper with
the Gmail favicon. I've cleared the cache and nothing happens. I'm still
looking at Gmail's favicon on the bookmark for my client's site.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #46 on issue 85806 by Jher...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

I found instructions for reloading the correct favicon. Delete the
bookmark, enter the site name in the URL followed by /favicon.ico, press
Enter and then use Ctrl+R once the site loads.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #47 on issue 85806 by Jher...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Oops. Additionally: Reload the browser and then re-save the bookmark after
your done.

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Comment #48 on issue 85806 by NZakhare...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Had this extremely frustrating issue as well, specifically with developing
on a local server. Google Chrome would apply a cached favicon to any url on
localhost.

I finally fixed it following these steps:
- remove any bookmarks for the problem domain

Then, find the defaults directory. Locations for different operating
systems are here :
http://www.craiglotter.co.za/2013/09/10/how-to-refresh-site-favicons-in-google-chrome/

Delete the Favicon file

Open the History file in sqllite. Delete any records with a url matching
the problem domain. (delete from urls where url like 'http://www.blah.com%')

After an hour of frustration, following those steps finally did the trick.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #49 on issue 85806 by g...@qbix.com: Can't delete favicons from
cache
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Thank you Jher...@gmail.com, #46 worked for me.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #50 on issue 85806 by vijay.sh...@gmail.com: Can't delete favicons
from cache
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85806

Hi all
if you are using windows 7 or above you can

delete the Favicons file under
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile 1

hope that will fix for you too..

Vijay