Where did the favicons go?
Faldo
showing up anymore in the address bar. It used to be on certain web addresses
the favicons would show next to the actual website address. Now the favicons
never show up. Is there a way of making them show up in the address bar like
it used to?
Jan Il
Take a look at the following information and see if it helps:
Favicons not showing or lost
Some ISPs and webhosts don't support favicons. Contact yours to find out if
it does. If it doesn't, ask it to start supporting favicons. Most ISPs and
webhosts now support favicons
IE stores the icons in the Temporary Internet Files cache. As soon as you
clear the cache (delete temporary files), you lose all of your icons.
FavOrg PCMag: To set Favicons
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.asp
Favicons are only temporary until cleared from your cache.
To save them permanently in a different folder and re-associate your
favorites with the stored icons.
It also verifies if Favorites links are still good.
FavInocizer, here:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp?target=favicons I've used
this and it's quite good,. It will actually find about a third more than
FavOrg does (since it checks for referenced URL's), but lacks some of the
other cababilites of FavOrg, Recommended.
To preserve the Favicons manually,
Visit a site and create a shortcut of it to the Desktop
Right-click the URL shortcut, and Send To > Notepad
Look at the line reading IconFile:
Example:
IconFile=http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico
Now, type http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico in the browser window and save
the .ico file locally.
Change the URL icon using the "Change Icon" in it's Properties sheet.
Note: View > Source can also be used to view the Favicon URL.
Courtesy of Ramesh -
Hope this helps
Jan :)
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Faldo
my system. Just would like to know how do I have the websites favicons show
up in the address bar when visiting various websites. It used to be that the
favicons would show in the address bar along with the url of the website you
are visiting. They used to show, but no more.
Jan Il
Are the Favorites there, but, not the icons for them? Or are the Favorites
also missing? That could be a different problem.
According to the information I provided regarding favicons being kept in the
Temporary Internet Files folder. It is possible that your TIF's have been
flushed and therefore, you no longer have the favicons. You may have to
revisit the sites from the Address bar in order to reset them in your TIF
folder. Also, check your History to be sure it is properly recording your
Internet visits to set the favicons.
Jon Kennedy
cache - the Temporary Internet Files folder. Somehow, they've gotten erased
or disassociated from your IE. The best thing to do to get them all back
would either be to totally clear out your TIF per this site:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm - and then visit the sites that
use favicons again.
Or, you could use this little tool that will get them back for all your
Favorites, and permanently store them in a file where they will not be
erased when the TIF is cleared or becomes corrupted:
FavOrg
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,6679,00.asp
If you don't subscribe to PCMag's downloads, you can also get it here:
Version 1.4 here:
http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip
or Version 1.2 here:
http://www.liemar.com.br/construindoseusite/downloads/favorg.zip
And for more information on favicons, how they work, how web site authors
use them, etc.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp
http://www.favicon.com/index.jsp?id=Internet+Explorer
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Faldo
Isn't a favicon an icon some websites use as a logo to represent their site?
Aren't favicons suppose to show up in the address bar when visiting websites
that offer favicons? If so, do the favicons show up in the address bar even
though the website is not in my favorites folder?
Lets say I go to www.google.com, should the "G" which is the google favicon
show in the address bar even though google.com is not in my favorites folder.
I remember a while back that when I used to visit various sites there used to
be an icon in the address bar.
Please correct me if I'm straying off the beaten path?
Alan Edwards
Favicons do not show in the address bar unless you have set the site
as a favorite.
If I go to any site that has a favicon (like www.google.com ), I do
not see the favicon until I set it as a favorite and access it by
using that favorite.
In time, that favicon will go from my TIF and I will not see it at
all, unless I save it permanently by one of the means already supplied
to you.
...Alan
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In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Faldo"
<Fa...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I must be missing something here.
>Isn't a favicon an icon some websites use as a logo to represent their site?
>Aren't favicons suppose to show up in the address bar when visiting websites
>that offer favicons? If so, do the favicons show up in the address bar even
>though the website is not in my favorites folder?
>Lets say I go to , should the "G" which is the google favicon
Jon Kennedy
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"Alan Edwards" <edw...@southcom.com.au> wrote in message
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Jan Il
>
> Favicons do not show in the address bar unless you have set the site
> as a favorite.
> If I go to any site that has a favicon (like www.google.com ), I do
> not see the favicon until I set it as a favorite and access it by
> using that favorite.
> In time, that favicon will go from my TIF and I will not see it at
> all, unless I save it permanently by one of the means already supplied
> to you.
Thanks, Alan, guess I just wasn't explaining clearly enough. :-)
Jan :)
Alan Edwards
<ab...@localhost.com> wrote:
Hi Jan,
You may have been clear enough but as I had hobnail boots on instead
of moccasins at the time, I though I would try a different approach.
Faldo
as a favorite. >>
That is the part that wasn't understood. Thanks to all for that little
tutorial.
I thought the favicon shows automatically viewing certain sites.
Thanks again for your time.
"Alan Edwards" wrote:
> Yes, you are missing something.
>
> Favicons do not show in the address bar unless you have set the site
> as a favorite.
> If I go to any site that has a favicon (like www.google.com ), I do
> not see the favicon until I set it as a favorite and access it by
> using that favorite.
> In time, that favicon will go from my TIF and I will not see it at
> all, unless I save it permanently by one of the means already supplied
> to you.
>
>
> ....Alan
Jim Byrd
Favorites. Try this. Grab the default icon at the left end of the Address
Bar and drag it all the way to the right end of the Address Bar and then
release.
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In news:7325ACA6-2F3F-41E1...@microsoft.com,
Faldo <Fa...@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
Jan Il
And it worked a treat. Thanks for stepping in. :-)
Jan :)
Faldo
Nifty little trick dragging the default icon.
I also see what you mean by the favicons not showing. I've tried to
permanently saving the favicons to the c:/
Faldo
As I was saying, After I tried to save the favicons permanently to the
c:/favicons folder and then associating it to a favorite, it would show in
the address bar until I delete the contents of the history folder. Not a big
deal. Just thought the favicons added some color, style and character. Thanks,
Jim Byrd
These are known as favicons.ico (Favorite Icons) and they normally will only
last until your Internet Explorer Temp files are cleared.
You need to get a program called FavOrg 1.4 here:
http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip
http://wittswallpapers.com/Oldies/favorg.zip
http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip
or Version 1.2 here:
http://members.madasafish.com/~merc/favorg.zip
http://www.dothan.k12.al.us/vault/favorg.zip
(still free at these links) which will allow you to save them permanently
in a different folder and re-associate your favorites with the stored icons.
(It will also verify whether your links in Favorites are stll good, BTW.)
If you want to read more about it first, go here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,9883,00.asp
You can also try FavIconizer, here:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/faviconizer.asp?target=favicons I've used
this and it's quite good,. It will actually find about a third more than
FavOrg does (since it checks for referenced URL's), but lacks some of the
other cababilites of FavOrg, Recommended. (Warning, however - it's verrry
slow compared with the others.)
A third alternative is AM-Deadlink, free, here:
http://www.aignes.com/products.htm "AM-DeadLink detects dead links and
duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable
you can delete it from your Browser. AM-Deadlink checks Bookmarks from
Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape. Additionally you can
download FavIcons for Internet Explorer and Opera." Recommended
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Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP
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Faldo <Fa...@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
Faldo
I downloaded, installed and setup Favorg 1.4 and all went well. I have the
favicons associated with the favorites, but when I click on a favorite to go
to it's website the favicon doesn't show up in the address bar. I do the
click/drag in the address bar to reset and that works fine. Aren't the
favicons supposed to show up automatically in the address bar being that the
favicons are stored in the Favorgs "data" folder, even after deleting the TIF
files.