WD9 Corrupted Favicon

**gwpriester** · 11 April 2013, 12:55 PM

I have published several sites and the Favicon in Chrome is fine in Windows 8 64-bit

Sledger and anyone else see if the favicon is OK in your Chrome http://www.placitasartists.com/Placitas-Art-Glass/

**Egg Bramhill** · 11 April 2013, 01:04 PM

Here's how it looks in Chrome for me Gary.

**steve.ledger** · 11 April 2013, 01:12 PM

Your site doesn't load properly here Gary. It's as if you are updating it at the moment?

I'll check again in the morning.

Meanwhile, how do these links compare in Chrome for you?

Check diff in Google Chrome (I have Version 26.0.1410.64 m)

Looks fine ► http://xara-users.magix.net/public/favicon/v8/

Not fine ► http://xara-users.magix.net/public/favicon/v9/
Not fine ► http://xara-users.magix.net/public/favicon/v9-32bit/

**gwpriester** · 11 April 2013, 03:14 PM

Version 26.0.1410.64 m

I can confirm you results

The Internet seems slow this morning. It took a bit of time for my home page to load. So maybe the page you captured was taking some time to load. The background loads first and that is what you have in your screen capture.

**trukkerz** · 11 April 2013, 04:27 PM

hi garry i either get webpage not available or your page all messed up see screen shot - the favicon seems ok though .

cheerz

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**covoxer** · 11 April 2013, 07:23 PM

This is apparently a Chrome bug. It fails to render some 32 bpp .ico files correctly. I have implemented workaround that seems to fix it and it will be available in the following update. Meanwhile, you can workaround this problem in your design by making your favicon object not perfectly pixel aligned. For example, if it has X coordinate something like 988, change it to 988.1 This should do the trick. Alternatively, make sure you have at least some not fully opaque pixels in your favicon design.

Thanks for spotting it.

**steve.ledger** · 11 April 2013, 08:42 PM

John, the same favicon exported from any other version of Web Designer except v9 displays perfectly fine. This would suggest that rather than entirely a Chrome bug, version 9 has some part in this error. Perhaps the new version is saving out the .ico file differently and Chrome is just unable to render it correctly due to whatever the change in the format is now?..
In other words, if it was a Chrome bug then the favicon would show the same corruuption no matter which version of Web Designer exported it.