Favicon's

**BWolf** · 31 March 2007, 03:17 AM

Can someone explain to me why when I visit a web site the Favicon is showing even if I do not have it saved in my favorites?

I thought the only way someone could see the favicon I made was after they saved the page in their favorites.

Thanks,

**joel** · 31 March 2007, 03:41 AM

Originally, Internet Explorer only used favicons for bookmarks, newer versions of Internet Explorer and most other browsers also display the favicon in the address bar.

Joel

**BWolf** · 31 March 2007, 11:48 AM

So are you saying if you have IE 7.0 or newer (not that there is a newer version) that you will see the icon if there is one w/o saving it?

**jyoung** · 31 March 2007, 05:25 PM

Maybe this will help - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

**BWolf** · 31 March 2007, 08:51 PM

It does help as I have seen that site and thank you.

Still does not answer that question why am I able to see other icons on pages I did not save in my favorites?

Example: http://www.favicon.com/

And also this page I do not have saved, but I see the icon!

Even the link you sent I do not have saved but I see the "W" there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

The people I have told about mine cannot see it till thay save it in the favorites!

**jyoung** · 01 April 2007, 05:57 PM

That is odd. I am using IE6 and when I click on the Wiki link I still see the IE favicon. Are you using IE or a different browser?

Could also be that the favicons are in cache. If the sites are not in your favorites list, I don't know what else it could be. Sorry I couldn't help.

**BWolf** · 01 April 2007, 07:26 PM

I am using IE 7.0

**jyoung** · 01 April 2007, 08:34 PM

I did some further research and found that Microsoft changed IE7 in how it decides to load favicons. Up through IE6, they used the bookmarks. Now they load the favicons when you visit a site. I searched the internet to find out how to disable this, but could not find any solutions. I'm not sure why Microsoft did that. There where many other forums that had similar types of questions about how IE7 handled the favicon so you are not alone.

Here is a link that may help. Note the 2nd question on when IE loads the favicon:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffdav/archiv...ar-in-ie7.aspx