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How do I add a favicon to Firefox bookmark toolbar?

How do I put a favicon on my Firefox bookmark toolbar when it isn't placed there automatically? And how does a site put it there? It doesn't show up in the bookmark's properties.


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Actually, firefox really doesn't let you change the favicon out of the box, but that's just why we have extensions for.

there is an extension that is called favicon picker that lets you change the favicon for your bookmarks (download here)
Posted 2006-09-29T01:43:52Z
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To create a favicon for your site, you should create the icon in .ICO format, and place it in a file called favicon.ico on your web site root folder. 

Next, add the following line to your HTML <head> section:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">

Even though the link specifies the icon URL, do not be tempted to move it elsewhere - some browsers assume that it's in the root folder.

I don't think you can change the favicon for a specific web site manually in FireFox (or any other browser).  
Posted 2006-08-14T21:00:41Z
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I'm not sure you can do that.

FireFox gets the favicon from the website you are bookmarking.
The site doesn't put it there but rather use a standard convension (read about it more here in Wikipedia) to tell the browser that it has a favicon.

When you bookmark a site that uses a favicon, FireFox adds the favicon near the bookmark. 

 
Posted 2006-08-14T21:06:07Z
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This is in addition to the original question. The question is around the client side. This web page https://www.getbackupnow.com/ has a favicon that appears on the address bar but won't get displayed on the Bookmark Toolbar icons as others do (e.g. http://www.cnn.com/).
Posted 2007-09-09T15:24:59Z
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I had the same problem with a couple of sites (GMail, Yahoo), when I checked "accept cookies" they appeared
Posted 2007-09-11T02:24:20Z
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Sic... I finally got the favicon link. Now, it doesn't work as a true solution to the question, but I was hung up (for some reason without 'www' specified the linking-icon tags mentioned before me here don't work, even from wikipedia, even from wiki-source).

But, this works on my XP sys with Explorer Favorites (keeps icon) and shows on tabs and in address bar for FF 2.0.0.9, so here is the best info I've found (after trying all other suggestions so far, but not tested on mac): http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon 
Posted 2007-11-06T00:34:11Z
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i had problems with some web-pages

and i don't think that you can do it

 

 

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Posted 2008-06-14T15:30:23Z
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To get a favicon to show up after you have bookmarked a site, you must click on the bookmark to go to the site.  Using the bookmark will cause it to check for a favicon.

 After Google changed their favicon, I received the updated icon after I used the bookmark to access the site.

 If you open the bookmarks.html file stored in your profile area, you will see each bookmark that has an icon has a section labeled:  ICON="data:image/x-icon;base64,

The icon image is stored with the bookmark in a base64 format.  You can cut the data that follows the comma into notepad, save the file as "test.b64" and open it with WinZip.  This will show a file named "Unknown.001".  Save this file to your desktop and rename it something like "icon.ico"  Windows should show you the icon bitmap as the thumbnail of the file.  If you have a program that will allow you to edit .ico files, you can open the file and verify it is the same 16x16 image Firefox uses for the favicon.

Posted 2008-07-01T03:48:25Z
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Great Answer Don Ho!  I've wondered about this for a long time.  Most important was the first thing in your note.  I've had favicons appear on bookmarking, but if it doesn't, just click the link and the favicon appears!  Thanx, Ben
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