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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.

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TheGateKeeper Avatar asked Sep 06 '11 18:09

TheGateKeeper


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2 Answers

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)

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FeroxTL Avatar answered Oct 16 '22 10:10

FeroxTL


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.

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Jamie Avatar answered Oct 16 '22 10:10

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