Fav.ico not sticking

[Acternaweb]

I have a custom icon (fav.ico) that remains in the book mark only sometimes. Another words sometimes it is present when I look at my bookmars and other times it is not. Any ideas?

[Robino]

Most (if not all) browsers screw this up. It's nothing you can control AFAIK.

[asquithea]

Common problem. In particular, it's broken in Firebird (my browser), and is often flushed from the cache in others. Don't sweat it -- it's just a tiny bit of decoration.

[jimbeetle]

If you really want to see it in IE just grab it with your cursor and give it a little shake.

Of course, it disappears when the next page loads, but at least you'll know that it's working.

<added>Try it up above and see what the WW favicon looks like.</added>

[Timotheos]

For some reason the CNN fav icon is the only that sticks around for me (using IE).

[richlowe]

The favicon image is stored by IE in it's cache. If you empty the cache, it's gone.

[Timotheos]

You're right of course... unleeeesssss you right click on it, select properties, click on "Change Icon" and select a different icon. Which I must have done a long time ago with CNN and forgotten about it. I chose the little newspaper icon. Seemed more appropriate.

So if you're desperate to keep your fav icons around then find them in your cache, drag em over to a safe place, and follow the above steps.

Too much of a pain for me ;-)

[thehittmann]

yep i have one for my site aswell....
you clean your temp files you clean away your fav icons

[xray012]

Hi, i'me experiencing the same problem with the disappearing icon.

I'me almost sure it's the way you code it in the pages;
since i have some icons in my fav's that are persistent, no matter howlong ago i visited the site (when searching the code there's no ".ico")?

i'me using;

<LINK REL="Shortcut Icon" HREF="http://www.mysite.nl/img/my-site.ico">

sometimes just;

<LINK REL="Shortcut Icon" HREF="img/my-site.ico">

I think there's another way to attach the icon (htaccess?)?
but couldn't find it here, or on the web?

[xray012]

After spending my whole evening searching for the final answer, i've found;

That most likely: the link-rel code is the only code to attach icon's to your page.

But also that from IE5, this code is no longer needed, since IE5 searches for a favicon in the root of your website. ( you could even reduce (minimal.) the data-transfer, by placing a favicon, so IE5 has a icon to find)

placing icons in your sub-dir's, some say it helps, some say it doesn't?, i guess using the link-rel code and placing icons in every dir you "need" is still the best way to go. (?)

GreetingZ

[Macro]

Try it up above and see what the WW favicon looks like

Just tried it. Cool tip :-)