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Ed Mullen wrote:
> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>> Ed Mullen wrote:
>>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>>> Slitheen wrote:
>>>>> "Ed Mullen" <> wrote in message
>>>>> news:. ..
>>>>>> Slitheen wrote:
>>>>>>> "Ed Mullen" <> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:XtudnaeritBho-...
>>>>>>>> Slitheen wrote:
>>>>>>>>> "Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo"
>>>>>>>>> <> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>> news:g5ddjq$535$...
>>>>>>>>>> Slitheen wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> I rolled back to Firefox 2.0.0.15 from version 3 (for valid
>>>>>>>>>>> reasons that are too boring, and unimportant to this problem,
>>>>>>>>>>> to go into). Since then, any new bookmarks I create do not
>>>>>>>>>>> store the 'favicons' (fancy bookmark icons). Can anyone tell
>>>>>>>>>>> me how to sort this problem out? Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>> in the address bar, type in about:config and look for these
>>>>>>>>>> entries, double click on them and put in the entry I have
>>>>>>>>>> listed next to them:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> browser.chrome.favicons true
>>>>>>>>>> browser.chrome.load_toolbar_icons 2
>>>>>>>>>> browser.chrome.site_icons true
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It had two of those values already set correctly (1st and
>>>>>>>>> 3rd).....but the 'browser.chrome.load_toolbar_icons 2' string
>>>>>>>>> doesn't exist. The only mention of toolbar in the
>>>>>>>>> 'browser.chrome' strings is 'browser.chrome.toolbar_style 2'
>>>>>>>> If it doesn't exist, create it. Right click on the list of
>>>>>>>> settings and choose New - Integer.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No....I'm afraid that doesn't work....even after a restart of
>>>>>>> Firefox.
>>>>>> Hmm. I don't use FF regularly but in FF2 only /some/ of the
>>>>>> favicons are showing up in the bookmarks. They all show in the
>>>>>> tab and location bar. Odd.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Now then, I just completely re-started my PC after your advice on
>>>>> creating the string 'browser.chrome.load_toolbar_icons 2', and now
>>>>> if I add a bookmark, the favicon is still not there...BUT the next
>>>>> time I click the bookmark, it creates the favicon. It never did
>>>>> this before.....so your advice worked. I don't know if this is the
>>>>> way they are supposed to work, but it has solved the issue
>>>>> nonetheless.
>>>>>
>>>>> My gratitude to you, sir. And for you, too, Peter Potamus.
>>>>
>>>> yes, that is the way they work. You have to "set" the favicon. In
>>>> older versions of FF, this wasn't so. They just show up because they
>>>> were stored in the cache. But in FF2, they're stored elsewhere.
>>>> And in FF3, its a whole new ball game and lets just forget about that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It is still odd because that is NOT the way my SeaMonkey works. If I
>>> open a folder in my bookmarks the favicons (if there are any)
>>> populate as fast as my 10 Mb/s cable feed can get them. Which is PDQ.
>>>
>>> I /think/ this may have something to do with the cache settings in FF
>>> but I haven't been able to reliably document and reproduce it.
>>>
>>
>> this is the way FF bookmarks used to work. The favicon was stored
>> within the cache. Since FF2, they've been stored within the bookmark
>> file [as I understood it].
>>
>
> The links to the favicons are stored in the HTML bookmarks file in FF2.
> Not sure what the program logic is for updating them.
>
> If they are stored in and refreshed from the cache that's a problem if,
> like me, my cache is automatically cleared on shut down.
>

as I said, FF2 favicons are stored in the bookmark
file, while SMs are stored within the cache. FF1 had
them stored within the cache, too.

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Ed Mullen wrote:
> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>> Ed Mullen wrote:
>
>>> The links to the favicons are stored in the HTML bookmarks file in
>>> FF2. Not sure what the program logic is for updating them.
>>>
>>> If they are stored in and refreshed from the cache that's a problem
>>> if, like me, my cache is automatically cleared on shut down.
>>>
>>
>> as I said, FF2 favicons are stored in the bookmark file, while SMs are
>> stored within the cache. FF1 had them stored within the cache, too.
>>
>
> The actual images are /not/ stored in bookmarks.html. The "links" to
> the image online are what is stored in the bookmarks file. The question
> is how are they updated? I've clicked on numerous bookmarks that have
> favicons and FF2 is still not showing them in the bookmark despite all
> the prefs being (seemingly) set properly.
>

then go and ask in the ff support group.

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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> Ed Mullen wrote:
>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>> Ed Mullen wrote:
>>
>>>> The links to the favicons are stored in the HTML bookmarks file in
>>>> FF2. Not sure what the program logic is for updating them.
>>>>
>>>> If they are stored in and refreshed from the cache that's a problem
>>>> if, like me, my cache is automatically cleared on shut down.
>>>>
>>>
>>> as I said, FF2 favicons are stored in the bookmark file, while SMs
>>> are stored within the cache. FF1 had them stored within the cache, too.
>>>
>>
>> The actual images are /not/ stored in bookmarks.html. The "links" to
>> the image online are what is stored in the bookmarks file. The
>> question is how are they updated? I've clicked on numerous bookmarks
>> that have favicons and FF2 is still not showing them in the bookmark
>> despite all the prefs being (seemingly) set properly.
>>
>
> then go and ask in the ff support group.
>

I've done some investigating and found that the
favicons for FF2 ARE stored within the cache.

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