Default favicon location
Chuck Anderson
site's favicon in the root directory of that site.
In other words, if I visit example.com, Firefox should automatically
look for example.com/favicon.ico, whether there was a link tag (<link
rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">) in the HTML file or not. I
believe there was a config setting that determined whether it would do
this or not.
I have tried placing a favicon in the root folder of sites on my
development machine at home (localhost) and at "live" sites on my remote
host. It appears that Firefox does not look for the favicon in it's
default location anymore. Do I really have to put the <link ...> tag
in the <head> of every file at my site?
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David McRitchie
> Has something changed? I thought Firefox automatically looked for a
> site's favicon in the root directory of that site.
>
> In other words, if I visit example.com, Firefox should automatically
> look for example.com/favicon.ico, whether there was a link tag (<link
> rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">) in the HTML file or not. I
> believe there was a config setting that determined whether it would do
> this or not.
>
> I have tried placing a favicon in the root folder of sites on my
> development machine at home (localhost) and at "live" sites on my remote
> host. It appears that Firefox does not look for the favicon in it's
> default location anymore. Do I really have to put the <link ...> tag
> in the <head> of every file at my site?
You have to invoke the bookmarked link, just creating it is not sufficient.
Look for it in a later session.
See reference http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries
find "browser. chrome" to bring you to correct area.
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Chuck Anderson
> "Chuck Anderson" wrote...
>
>> Has something changed? I thought Firefox automatically looked for a
>> site's favicon in the root directory of that site.
>>
>> In other words, if I visit example.com, Firefox should automatically
>> look for example.com/favicon.ico, whether there was a link tag (<link
>> rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">) in the HTML file or not. I
>> believe there was a config setting that determined whether it would do
>> this or not.
>>
>> I have tried placing a favicon in the root folder of sites on my
>> development machine at home (localhost) and at "live" sites on my remote
>> host. It appears that Firefox does not look for the favicon in it's
>> default location anymore. Do I really have to put the <link ...> tag
>> in the <head> of every file at my site?
>>
>
> You have to invoke the bookmarked link, just creating it is not sufficient.
> Look for it in a later session.
.... to see it appear next to the bookmark ... yes. I've tried that,
but it was not working.......
........ until I restarted Firefox. I guess that's what it takes. It
seems to work now. Thanks.
> See reference http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries
> find "browser. chrome" to bring you to correct area.
>
Ah yes, thanks .... I already did have that set correctly.
browser.chrome.favicons is already set to true.
browser.chrome.site_icons is also set to true.