Clearing your favicon cache
September 4, 2003 - 6:02am — bmann
[image:544,left,10]Likely no one noticed, but I finally replaced the default Drupal favicon. Hmmm...I don't actually remember where I got it -- it was at some free site somewhere.
But, I couldn't get it to show up in Safari. Clearing the cache, restarting the machine, restarting Safari -- none of that worked. So I found Safari Icon Manager, which will let you delete individual favicons as well as empty your cache. FavOrg looks like it does the same thing for IE/Win.
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still the default ico
on ff 0.9xurrently on a win platform currecurrently on a win platvorm with ff 0.9something
I am sorry to say that I still see the default icon as of today, http://www.bmannconsulting.com/favicon.ico
Hi Bert
I see you're looking at some really old posts. I've switched things several times since then, and yes, I had the default Druplicon still in use now -- still upgrading to the latest versions.
I just pasted in a picture of me now, but you'll have to (as I mentioned) do lots of cache clearing to see it.
Cache dumping
clears favicons in every browser/system I've seen, I guess that's intended behavior. These thingies are cute but I don't like anything that slows the 'favorites' lists.
Cache managers are useful, but running a tool just for favicon persistence? Don't think I wud.
Hmm..
How'd i get logged out... bizarre... I didn't even notice.
I was going to guess...
Dave, but I wasn't sure. Yes, I see your favicon. The problem with my site is that it *had* a favicon (the Drupal "drop"), and by some browsers, this seems to be cached indefinitely.
The little guy was titled "prophet". I just like the look of him...
Do you see mine?
I did it a long time ago... it's pretty weak...
But your little magician/troll/whatever isn't being loaded by my browsers... I'm getting your old favicon in firebird (the drupal one) and nothing in IE...
I don't know who you are
Anon-ee-mouse! Come out, come out!
Like I said, it's darn difficult to go through the various cache-cleaning exercises. Works for me in IE6/Win and Mozilla/Firebird/Win.
Web Icons
So Boris,
...how can one make an icon (tools for PC and Mac);
what is the file format?
and what should the file be named;
and where should it be placed?
Thnkx
All your questions answered
how can one make an icon
On the Mac, you can use GraphicConverter to save images in ico format. There are also some specialized icon programs that allow you to build ico files for both Mac and Windows.
I, of course, did some searches for icons. There is the IconArchive which has them as .gifs and .ico. You can just use Windows ico files directly, and should be able to find them around. Actually, Safari and Mozilla support .png as well, but you specifically have to add a header tag to your pages:
link type="shortcut icon" href ="my_icon.png"what is the file format?
The file format is ".ico", which is the same as the Windows icon format.
what should the file be named; where should it be placed?
It needs to be called favicon.ico and placed in the root of your web directory.