A favicon is a small icon displayed next to the URL of a website or next to the title of website in a tab.
Questions tagged [favicon]
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How to download favicon from website?
When you browse a website, the "favicon" icon shows up in the tab or next to the URL (or next to the bookmark).
If I want that graphic, is there a way to download it directly from the site? I'd prefer to download it directly from the web, but if all…
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How can this Stack Exchange site have an animated favicon?
Yesterday I was browsing on https://stackexchange.com and noticed that the list of all Stack Exchange has an animated favicon:
How is this possible? I thought favicons were static ICO files, incapable of animation?
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How to refresh bookmark favicons in chrome
I updated favicons for a bunch of my websites.
Refreshing the website does indeed show the updated favicon in the browser tab, however the bookmarks for those websites still have the old favicon.
Short of deleting and re-adding each bookmark, is…
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Grab favicon.ico using Google Chrome dev tools
Where can I grab the favicon of a website using Google Chrome dev tools. I have access to the resources (html, css, js, images, etc.) but I cannot find the favicon.
Where is the favicon hidden in the Chrome dev tools?
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Change a favicon locally in google chrome
This is a frustrating question, mostly because all searches for this usually give me information on how to change a favicon for a website the user owns. Allow me to elaborate on my issue.
I would like to be able to change the favicon that is…
Justin Bool
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Make Firefox use the favicon as window icon under Linux
Is there a Firefox feature, setting, or add-on that arranges it so that the favicon of the currently open web page becomes the icon of the browser window in Linux/X11? In particular, it ought to show up in the window manager's task bar. Konqueror…
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Wrong Favicons in Firefox
I am getting wrong favicons when I bookmark sites in Firefox 56.0 (64-bit).
For example, when I bookmark Stackoverflow.com, I get a favicon for Reddit.com.
Any idea why this would be, or how I can fix it?
Note: This is the only site this is…
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How can I add a favicon to a bookmarklet in Firefox?
Bookmarklets, such as SuperGenPass don't have favicons, because they are javascript: links and Firefox doesn't know where it would obtain the favicon from. Is there any way to add a favicon to a JavaScript bookmarklet?
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How can I add a favicon to a bookmarklet in Google Chrome?
I'm on OS X and I want my bookmarklets to have favicons. I already found two articles but they didn't help much:
http://www.tapper-ware.net/blog/?p=97#comment-2076 It's a great article but as I understand it this doesn't seem to work for Chrome…
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Is there a way to add a custom favicon to an App Tab?
Since the release of Firefox "5", I've come to really love the new "App Tabs" feature. However, I've now realized that several internal websites at work do not have favicons. So, when I make an App Tab out of these sites, there's only a "blank…
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Make Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox only Show Favicon
In chrome you can replace the names of bookmarks in the toolbar with their favicon. Is it possible to do the same thing in Firefox? I want all my bookmarks to just display the favicon in order to save space.
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Remove default favicon on localhost
I developed a website with a favicon and now every time I access localhost (for my other projects), I get that same favicon showing up. I'm on OSX, using Chrome. I tried clearing the cache; it flashed to the default unknown favicon first, then…
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Mail client sender icons
Why do email clients (for example, Windows Mail) display icons (sender pictures) from several companies?
As you can see, Microsoft, Tubmlr, Paypal provide pictures, as well as Go Daddy, Amazon, Github, Quora, Medium, Meetup and others; however,…
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How do I remove the favicons from Google search results?
See the favicons with the red box around them. This is a recent addition and is not caused by anything else as it's a fresh install of chrome.
I would like to disable these.
Is there a setting in Chrome to remove them?
The same search in firefox,…
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How do I get Safari 9 to use my new pinned tab icon?
Safari 9 on OSX supports showing icons on its new pinned tabs, using the following syntax:
However after adding this line, reloading my page, and pinning the tab, the icon doesn't show…
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