Firfox v1 - any way to show icons of one's preference in PTF (regardless of what is or is not in cac

This is the only thing in FF that I haven't been able to fix.
Recently upgraded to v1 so hoping that v0.9 problem has a solution.
Icons only appear in the Personal Toolbar file when in cache - similar
to IE's problem of icons only appearing for a while in the Temporary
Internet Files folder. In IE, just pointed the shortcut to a saved
ICO file.

How we can do something similar in FF? The icons seem to keep
flickering on and off. Also, having them all the same generic icon
makes it just that much more annoying to find the one to click on. In
IE, in order to fit as many into the Links toolbar as possible, have
only a letter to tell what the icon is for. Since the icon is what
the eye goes to, all of this was never a problem in IE. Now I am
_not_ an IE fan, but must admit that this whole thing is easier to
handle there.

Thanks.

 

Type about:config in the address bar, and make sure that both preferences
browser.chrome.favicons
and
browser.chrome.site_icons
are set to true.

For Mozilla Suite there's also the integer preference
browser.chrome.load_toolbar_icons
but I don't know if it has any effect in Firefox.
Of course you could set it in Firefox (or create it if it's not in the
about:config list).
The values have the following meaning for Mozilla Suite:
// 0 - No
// 1 - Show icons only if they're cached
// 2 - Always show icons
// Default: 0
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Regards,

Roland de Ruiter
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The above has been done. But not all icons are showing still. I'm
guessing that maybe it's the fault of how the icons are set up on each
website? Or something of that sort?

For the ones that still don't have an icon, is there any way to
manually put a path to a saved icon, like in IE? That's what I really
need, actually. Because otherwise, every single time I do an OS
wipe/reinstall, I'll sometimes get some icons and sometimes not get
other icons. Too uncertain for my taste.

Anyone know?

Thanks.

 

FINALLY, after such a long time looking someone finally knew the
answer!

Favicon picker:
http://cgi29.plala.or.jp/mozzarel/addon/firefox/faviconpicker/

It works perfectly for those of us who came over from IE and depended
heavily on our Links toolbar! <g>

 

it's a littel annoying because it looks in the TIF (temporary internet files) for icons (as well as i recall), and you have to lead it to
your storage folder for icons.

btw, a fast way to get icons is to use favorg 1.4 on your favorite favorites (links folder, usually). it grabs favicon.ico and dumps
then in data folder.

then copy the favorg data folder to permanent folder near the TIF.
now you can direct faviconpicker to this nearby folder.

finally , reset favorg data location (in favorg.ini) to your new fodler, so any new favorg grabs are in that nearby folder.