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How can I tell chrome not to fetch any favicon.ico files from a webserver? For web development and debugging, I find this very annoying when I read server side logs. Loading the favicon is also bias when measuring and optimizing my page load times so I want to completely disabled it on the client side in chrome.
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You can now simply right click the favicon. ico request and click "Block request URL".
In Chrome, you can't fully disable favicons. The best you can do is to remove the favicon files, but this won't prevent a site from tracking you with them.
By default, your browser will use the favicon in the same folder with your html file, so removing your link tag will do nothing. You need to move the favicon elsewhere or delete it. Then, if it stills shows up, clear your cache and go to the icon to see the new one.
When you add a favicon to your site, it may not show up since your browser has 'saved' your site as one without a favicon. You need to clear the cache in your browser or use a different browser.
Look at this Chrome extension I hate your favicon, or build your own one, which utilizes webRequest module and trap all outgoing requests for favicons.
Also you could possibly set up one of ad blocking extensions to do the same job.
P.S. You can read discussion about whether to consider this as a bug, or feature in the issue 39402 at Chromium porject, I think it applies to Chrome as well. And it seems there will be no easy way to turn this behaviour off via options in the near future.
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