Ben,
Well no, not exactly, but in the bad old IE days, IE would allow whatever
favicon.ico to be used for a new link initially, but then after a period of
time IE would just swap the favicon with the generic IE icon. This always
made me grumble. Perhaps this happened when I cleared my IE files each
evening on the way to bed........... :)
So, I had been collecting nice favicons for many years (have 80 now) and
keep them in the the c:\winnt\system32\icons\ directory (and a few backup
areas on the lan). This let me "customize" my links to what I wanted them
to look like. They gave me a graphic reference to where I wanted to go. The
few choices that IE allowed were lame; and, contained in a dot-dll file. I
don't know how to manipulate a dot-dll file and really don't want to know.
As I said, no biggy; just wondered.
Best,
Duncan
At 16:19 07/29/2008 -0400, you wrote:
As far as I know, no. I think you can turn it off entirely. I never cared
enough to want to change it.
Would you make new .ico's for your bookmarks?
DHSinclair wrote:
Ben,
Yes, I have seen this happen; and figured it was the site favicon.ico in
play.
So, is there any facility in FF for me to manipulate this locally?
Best,
Duncan
At 15:39 07/29/2008 -0400, you wrote:
It takes the favicon.ico from the site (if it has any) and uses that.
DHSinclair wrote:
Does FF allow link/bookmark customization? I guess what I
mean by this is assigning a custom x.ico pix to the link?
If so, where? how?
I have dug through all the main menus and sub-menus but can
not find anything.
It almost looks like FF may do this customize auto-magically
because several of my old links have changed the x.ico associated
to the link/bookmark!
This ain't a biggie, and, yes, so far FF is much nicer than IE!
Lighter footprint, faster; what's not to like. To bad I have forgotten
all my old Netscape knowledge................ :)
Best,
Duncan
