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  • Tip for comon problem with new favicon (wont show up) solved

    Posted 15 years 7 months ago
    • Hey Folks

      I finally figured out how to get firefox to re cache my new favicons, thought i'd share it here.

      It seems like many people (including me till now) are have issues with getting their favicon to show up on their site.

      Here's a handy tip to get your favicon showing up so you *really* know its working.

      This is for firefox, as I'm into firefox, so maybe others using different browsers can also add there own fix to this thread as well.

      Your favicon should be in site_root/templates/rhuk_milkyway/favicon.ico

      This is in the instance your using "rhuk_milkyway" as your default template, your favicon should be inside YOUR template folder.

      Now once you have done this you may find its not showing up in firefox, this is because firefox is caching the old image.

      This is the fix.

      1. In your url bar type about:cache?device=disk and then hit enter

      2. now hit ctrl f (on keyboard) to use the firefox find tool. At the bottom of your browser window you will see the search box, now enter the url of your favicon into the search box.

      example : http://your_url.com/templates/rhuk_milkyway/favicon.ico :see below

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      3. Now click next, you should see a link to the favicon highlighted in green :see below


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      4. Click that link, you should get a new page, with another link at the top: see below


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      5. Now click that link, you should get a fire fox page that has the old default joomla favicon show up in the top right hand corner.

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      6. Just hit crtl F5 (refresh) you have now recached your favicon. You should see your new favicon now.

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      Now when you browse to your site your new favicon will show up.

      You can repeat the above steps but replace

      about:cache?device=disk
      with
      about:cache?device=memory

      Hope this helps!
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  • Re: Tip for comon problem with new favicon (wont show up) solved

    Posted 15 years 7 months ago
    • I don't actually use Firefox any more because after upgrading my computers to Vista 64-bit, Firefox does not work properly. However, I just checked one of my sites and my favicon is showing up okay, and it is in my root directory.
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  • Re: Tip for comon problem with new favicon (wont show up) solved

    Posted 15 years 7 months ago
    • I had some issues with firefox on Vista 64bit but it seems to be okay now, running version 3.0.14
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