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TheGateKeeper
TheGateKeeper

Reputation: 4530

Favicon not showing up

I placed my favicon here:

http://www.vittoriosastarsnursery.com/favicon.ico

But for some reason it doesn't want to show in Firefox. It did work in IE, but I'm more concerned about getting it working in Firefox.

Upvotes: 43

Views: 128780

Answers (14)

ahmnouira
ahmnouira

Reputation: 3491

Changing the name of your icon will fix this issue:

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/app.ico" />

Upvotes: 0

Pranav Arya
Pranav Arya

Reputation: 15

If you are using Microsoft Edge then on the browser tab running the local development server you can hold on to the reload/refresh icon and it will show you three options

  1. Normal Refresh (Ctrl + R)
  2. Hard Refresh (Ctrl + Shift + R)
  3. Empty cache and hard refresh

the second one (Hard Refresh) worked for me, so you can try that and if it doesn't works for you then you can try third option (empty cache and hard refresh)

Upvotes: 0

K_Wainaina
K_Wainaina

Reputation: 309

Something that hasn't been mentioned that seems to have been the cause of my issue was the image file size. The image I was using was 4254px X 3850px at 1.3MB. It worked fine in Chrome desktop but not on Chrome mobile or Firefox. Changing the dimensions to 120px X 120px reduced the file size to 9.1KB and the favicon now works well.

P.s. This only works if your code has no issues.

Upvotes: 0

Jamie
Jamie

Reputation: 1679

I can see it in Chrome, Firefox, and IE. My friend had a problem like this when we were testing back in college. It was just a weird caching thing that made her think it wasn't working right. I'm sure that everyone besides you will be able to see that it works fine.

Try opening the Dev Tools (CMD + Option + i on Mac) and hard refresh the page (hold the refresh button until options appear).

You could always try restarting your browser after clearing the cache and see if that helps.

Upvotes: 52

Abhishek Raj
Abhishek Raj

Reputation: 498

https://github.com/ritwickdey/vscode-live-server/issues/77

I was facing this problem with VS-Code live server, as discussed above it's browser cache issue, there is popular github thread on this.

just try the trick:

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico?v=2" type="image/x-icon"/>

Happy learning

Upvotes: 6

Jeremy
Jeremy

Reputation: 249

It is just a caching issue. Just change the file name and it will show up immediately... otherwise do nothing and it will show up eventually. Browsers are just very persistent with the favicon caching.

Upvotes: 2

Scinzon
Scinzon

Reputation: 1

For those who have tried everything and the favicon still does not show up:

  1. Put it in your sites Root Directory
  2. Rename it "favicon.ico"

  3. Make sure your code is like such:

    <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico"/>

    1. IF you still have the same problem, put the whole website in ANOTHER DIRECTORY, like a Memory Stick (that fixed it for me :) ).

    2. REMEMBER: You HAVE to put the icon code in the of EVERY page. :)

Upvotes: -1

FeroxTL
FeroxTL

Reputation: 5098

Suddenly I found answer here

You should add "?" to your favicon path and it works! Even with path such as images/favicon.ico. Just try:

<link rel="icon" href="/images/favicon.ico?" type="image/x-icon">

Other browsers works too.

Remember to restart mozilla, because of it's own cache, that is not connected with css and other caching.

updated:

Another way is set redirect from favicon.ico to /images/favicon.ico (301 works)

Upvotes: 120

DrewT
DrewT

Reputation: 5082

Two things to consider

  • If it's working in some browsers and not in others it's likely going to be a cache issue. Clear your cache and refresh, or for more in depth info: How do I force a favicon refresh
  • If favicon.ico is in the project's root folder but not being recognized by any browsers I would check out the .htaccess, or whatever equivalent of .htaccess depending on server type etc.

Upvotes: 6

Erdem Zengin
Erdem Zengin

Reputation: 51

For those who suffer from this problem, try move your favicon file to home directory. It worked for me and solved my problem.

Upvotes: 4

AllJs
AllJs

Reputation: 1810

If you don't want to spend hours. trying to figure out why your favicon is not showing up, make sure to always place it in the root of your project folder and add a link in the <head></head> section of your page like so:

<head>
  //other code
  <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
  //other code
</head>

Folder Structure

--app
-----img
-----js
-----css
-----favicon.ico

Upvotes: 4

Daymon
Daymon

Reputation: 11

I had this problem too. it turns out (for me at least) that blocking users / agents with no referrer via .htaccess caused the problem.

Upvotes: 1

Dylan Tack
Dylan Tack

Reputation: 745

It works for me in FireFox. When running identify (part of the ImageMagick package), it reports this problem: identify: invalid colormap index 'favicon.ico' @ error/image.c/SyncImage/3906

Perhaps opening the file in a graphics editor and re-saving it would clean up this error.

Upvotes: 1

GuyFromOverThere
GuyFromOverThere

Reputation: 471

<link rel="icon" href="http://khachmeruk.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://khachmeruk.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

Upvotes: 6

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