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Posted by Chris Hope on 10/23/50 11:17
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Chris Hope wrote:
>
>> UKuser wrote:
>>
>>> I have created a favicon and it works fine in Firefox. However I
>>> updated it, reuploaded it, and now only users who havent been to the
>>> site can view the new icon.
>>>
>>> I have:
>>> 1) Cleared my web history
>>> 2) Tried dragging the icons off the toolbar to refresh it
>>> 3) Am using the <Link rel> attribute
>>>
>>> IE won't display the icon,
>>
>> IE will only display the icon after you've added it to your
>> favorites.
>
> Same with Firefox IIRC. It would be very expensive to periodically
> scan all Web sites in the bookmarks and refresh their favicon.ico.
> Imagine what this would do to usage log. Even worse than access to RSS
> feeds...
Firefox displays the icon when you go to the site. IE will only display
the icon when you bookmark it. I've watched Apache logs when testing
stuff and I've seen Firefox request the favicon file on every page
request.
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