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Shane:

--- Quote ---UPDATE: I ran Windows Repair per your instructions and then I restarted and also did the Tweaks. Now the few FF desktop icons that were from the past, which still had their favicons, are now all blank white like the new ones I make.

Even the IE favicons were missing but after opening the links, for instance, the Tweaking.com favicon for IE was just an E but when I opened the link, it came back.

Anyway, at a loss here.
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This is because the icon cache was cleared, which is where the icons where stored. When you opened IE it reloaded the icons, which get store in the cache. Looks like the older versions of firefox did the same thing, so thats why older ones lost their icons, but when you open firefox it isnt reloading them.

So it does look like it is firefox related. One good test would be to try a who new user profile and see how it does.

There is also some helpful info in firefox, go to help and then trouble shooting info and in there it will list every default settings in the about:config that has been changed. We can see if anything about the icons or cache have been changed.

Shane

Shane:
I found this, looks like firefox does have a setting for it :-)


--- Quote ---An option "browser.shell.shortcutFavicons", accessible through about:config, has been added that allows one to choose the old behavior of using generic FF icon (thus without any favicon) for shortcuts created dragging an URL from the address bar to the desktop (or whatever other directory/folder).
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Shane

ComputerJunkie:
Hi Guys,

Hi Boggin,
Well is the flash and java, I had to delete the automated installs and updates, tried the offline installs and that didn't fix it right away. Then there was something about getting junk out of the registry that was still not allowing it to work right. And then I did a another offline install. Took some doing but finally they were working.

Hi Shane,
Unfortunately, that was the thing I said I could not remember what else I had tried-it was going into the about:config and turning both "browser.shell.shortcutFavicons"  and "browser.chrome.favicons" to False and cleaned caches and restarted again.

For this FF problem, I was originally reading all those favicon threats out and unable to get any of their fixes working either. There is one thread that kinda got me because a man was asking the exact same question because he wanted to make a favicon bookmark to stay on his client's desktop and wanted to know what to do. First off, that poor man was continually getting berated saying how he can't be a webmaster if he insists on putting up a desktop bookmark and well a bunch of stuff instead of trying to give him an answer. At some point, they stated it's a bug but in some spots it "look" like they bug was supposedly fixed yet it came back when I just did that most recent Firefox update.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1093765
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110894

Shane:
I see stuff get broken in firefox all the time, so it wouldnt surprise me lol

So I just tried dragging a bookmark to my desktop and I dont have an icon other than the normal white one either. So it doesnt work for me either when pulled from firefox, so this looks to be something that isnt working in firefox with the current build and not a problem with you :wink:

Shane

ComputerJunkie:
OH!!! THANK YOU SHANE!!! I was going nutz over here. Now I definitely know why it happens once in a while-just that it's been almost 2 years since it happened...but now I know!

So now, I am wondering if my Java on Pogo is acting up because of a glitch/bug/poor programming.

I like to play High Stakes Pool over there and you have to aim, choose any English and then pull the cue back to get the power you want and then release. BUT, it's been releasing prematurely and that's why I was working on it-but I am going to dig a little deeper again, to see if there's any bugs in Java or if it's just a Pogo thing. Pogo tried to tell me, I was the first they heard about this-but you never know.

I have been trying to make sure ALL is working well with the newest software so I can make a new System Image again...I miss the days of Win 3.1! hahaha

Thanks again!

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