Posted by The Eclectic Electric on 11/11/12 11:25

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> The Eclectic Electric wrote:
>> At the minute I'm just fannying on as I try to relearn the HTML I
>> used to know and get up to speed with all the new tricks, but one
>> thing that's bugging me at the minute is that even though my
>> favicon displays in the URL bar and on the tab, it does not appear
>> next to the site name in the bookmarks toolbar. I've tried
>> deleting and re-adding the bookmark but this doesn't work either.
>> The only other websites who aren't displaying favicons are those
>> that don't have them. Is there a something I'm missing?
>>
>> http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.houghton/index.htm
>
> I see your favicon in Firefox, both in the location bar, and on the tab,
> but not when bookmarking it. Try adding the word shortcut to the link, and
> adding the type. I use the following two lines:
>
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
> <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
>

I've tried both of those methods and neither makes a difference. But thanks
for your suggestion.

> Your page also wanted to install plugins, and apparently play two
> different pieces of music at the same time. Not nice. :-(
>

Interesting!!!! It doesn't on mine, but I guess that's because I have the
plugins ready installed. Should only be Quicktime plugin though - is that
right? And it plays sounds on a mouseover - the page is basically testing
mousover with preload, part of my grand scheme (scratches chin).

+e

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