Manually refresh favicon.ico files in Firefox 3
June 12th, 2008 | 28 comments
Update (1/10/09): Try the new Favicon Picker 3 extension. When I originally wrote this post Favicon Picker for FF3 wasn’t available. If you need to refresh an old bookmark’s favicon, after installing the extension, try this: right click on bookmark -> properties -> Icon: “Reset”, then restart Firefox. When it restarts the new icon should appear. If that doesn’t work for you, you can try the complicated old school way below. Original (6/12/08): I have been working on some favicon.ico files for a couple different sites and I noticed that Firefox 3 has trouble refreshing the favicon image in your…