Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 11/09/01 11:17

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...

>> but as Firefox would, I am interested to
>> know how to reset my cache (whereever its stored).

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