3 Spots Where Your Favicon is Shown
Do you want to see all the places where a favicon can be displayed? Then, just follow along, and I’ll show you.
Let me give you two URLs. They happen to be two of my favorite websites, but most likely you’ve never heard of either of them. If you do happen to have visited one of them before, just pick the other one for this demonstration. That’s so you can watch the favicon come up out of nowhere when your browser finds it and puts it where it’s supposed to go. I’ll give you the URLS, but you need to wait! Don’t do anything until I tell you!
URL1: www.stormcarib.com
URL2: www.triddlers.com
1st Place: the Address Bar
OK. It’s time. Open a new tab. If you can’t do that, then just open a new window. Type the URL you picked into the Address Bar. But look at your screen quickly, or you’ll miss the favicon’s first appearance! It’s going to show up just in front of the URL you’re typing in.
2nd Place: the Tab Bar
Are you using a tabbed browser, like Firefox or a later version of Internet Explorer? Then you should also see the favicon to the left of the website title in the tab bar.
3rd Place: Bookmarks or Favorites
If you’ve never been to this URL before, it obviously won’t be in your bookmarks yet. So click on ‘Favorites’, then ‘Add to Favorites’. Now just click ‘Add’. Go back to ‘Favorites’, and you should see your new favorite at the bottom of the list, with its favicon just to the left.
If you recently created your own favicon, but you can’t find it in any of its locations, don’t worry! This is a frequent occurrence. Keep reading:
1) Clear your cache.
2) If this doesn’t reveal your favicon, then you’ll need to close your browser, and then open it again.
3) If that fails also, then there can be only two reasons: a) The browser that you’re using doesn’t use favicons at all, which is not very likely, or b) Your favicon is FAKE!
I know it may say ‘favicon.ico’, but that doesn’t mean it’s a REAL favicon. You need to create a favicon in the correct manner, else it won’t act like a favicon is supposed to. Take a look below for more info.
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