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You will have to delete your cache from your browser, close your browser and reopen it. That should fix it. I don't believe your favicons will get refreshed on your favorites until you revisit that page, and assuming that you had previously cleared your browsers cache.
Resetting the page or clearing the cache on your site or browser may be sufficient to fix the issue. If that doesn't work, try other options. Different graphic formats are used to create a favicon, but some of them are not supported by all browsers and their versions. In this case, it is recommended to use .
Chrome Favicons are stored in the 'Favicons' SQLite database, within the 'favicons', 'favicon_bitmaps' and 'icon_mapping' tables. Older versions of Chrome stored Favicons in a 'Thumbnails' SQLite database, within the 'favicons' table.
Clear your cache. http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95582 And test another browser.
Some where able to get an updated favicon by adding an URL parameter: ?v=1 after the link href which changes the resource link and therefore loads the favicon without cache (thanks @Stanislav).
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico?v=2" />
How did you import the favicon? How you should add it.
Normal favicon:
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
PNG/GIF favicon:
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="favicon.gif" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png" />
in the <head> Tag.
Another thing could be the problem that chrome can't display favicons, if it's local (not uploaded to a webserver). Only if the file/icon would be in the downloads directory chrome is allowed to load this data - more information about this can be found here: local (file://) website favicon works in Firefox, not in Chrome or Safari- why?
Try to rename it from favicon.{whatever} to {yourfaviconname}.{whatever} but I would suggest you to still have the normal favicon. This has solved my issue on IE.
Found another solution for this which works great! I simply added my favicon as Base64 Encoded Image directly inside the tag like this:
<link 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rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" />
Used this page here for this: http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp
I can really suggest you this page: http://www.favicon-generator.org/ to create all types of favicons you need.
I read a bunch of different entries till I finally found a solution that worked for my scenario (ASP.NET MVC4 project).
Instead of using the filename favicon.ico for my icon, I renamed it to something else, ie myIcon.ico. Then I just used exactly what Domi posted:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="myIcon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
And this worked!
It's not a caching issue because I tested this with Fiddler - a request for favicon never occurred, even if I cleared my cache "From the beginning of time". I believe it's just some odd bug with chrome?
Upload your favicon.ico to the root directory of your website and that should work with Chrome. Some browsers disregard the meta tag and just use /favicon.ico
Go figure?.....
I also experienced the same thing. I found out that my favicon.ico had not been processed as a legitimate shortcut icon. I understand that favicons must be scaled to 16x16 and follow the Microsoft Icon format.
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