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Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on November 20, 2005 04:49 AM:

So I have my favourites list in Firefox. A lot of the pages in the list have custom CSS icons for them. The problem is that some icons carried over and now they're stuck that way. Like, Snay's blog has the IMDb icon. A local classified page and a weather page I go to have the GateWorld icon. Omega's blog and another messageboard have the same icon, not sure which is supposed to have it, etc. Is there any way to change the icons? Refresh them or something?

Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on November 20, 2005 05:58 AM:

$VERY_LONG_STRING = "C:\Documents and Settings\YourProfileName\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\YourProfileID\bookmarks.html"

It's a bug in FF. You'll either have to edit $VERY_LONG_STRING to reset the icons, or force a hard refresh with CNTRL + F5 at each site in your bookmarks and then delete and readd the bookmark for it.

Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on November 20, 2005 06:01 AM:

Those icons aren't CSS -- that acronym stands for "Cascading Style Sheets", which defines the appearance of a page. You're referring to the "favorites icon", commonly shortened to "favicon". Your best bet is to just empty Firefox's cache and start the icons from scratch.

Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on November 20, 2005 07:06 AM:

I thought the icons were specified using CSS?

Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on November 20, 2005 08:16 AM:

Nope. There are two ways to specify the site icon. First is to place the icon file in the root directory of a domain and name it "favicon.ico". The second is to add a small bit of HTML code into each individual page of the site:

code:

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

Neither one uses CSS to set the icon. The bookmarks and their icons are managed entirely independently of CSS. (I think it was MSIE that originally created the idea of having custom icons.) CSS is used entirely for determining the presentation of a web page on the display and rendering level, not the managing level.

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on November 20, 2005 12:42 PM:

"So I have my favourites list in Firefox."

I doubt that. Your bookmarks list, maybe.

Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on November 20, 2005 07:26 PM:

Well, whatever you call it. The list of websites I frequently visit.

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on November 20, 2005 07:52 PM:

I use Explorer, is there any way to refresh so that all my bookmarks search out their corresponding icons? I've been thinking about this for a couple of years, it should be possible to make the bookmarks themselves "talk" to their own parents and get new finery, shouldn't it?