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Title: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Reno on January 16, 2007, 21:00

How do i backup a favicon out of firefox? Does anyone know?

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Simon on January 16, 2007, 21:08

Funnily enough, I was looking into this the other day, and it doesn't seem as though you can.  I'm not exactly sure what you want to do, Bob, but I wanted to grab a favicon as a desktop shortcut to a website.  The best advice I could find was to use IE just for that purpose, as it's not possible with Firefox or Mozilla.

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Rodders on January 16, 2007, 21:12

I'd first try displaying just the file itself, by loading 'favicon.ico' from the site's root directory.  In other words, type the path to the site's root dir and append /favicon.ico.  Nine times out of ten you'll pull it up that way.

 

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Simon on January 16, 2007, 21:15

That's brilliant, Rod!  :thumb:

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Rodders on January 16, 2007, 21:18

How come Pals doesn't have one now?  Would you like one?   ;)

There's a how-to-do-it here (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/).

 

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Lona on January 16, 2007, 21:32

I know what icons are but what are favicons ???

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Rodders on January 16, 2007, 21:38

It's the ickle widdle piccy that appears in the address bar of your browser, next to the URL, when you visit certain websites.  You should see a little fish when you visit this one (http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp) for example.  Also, when you add the site to your favourites you also add the favicon as well.

 

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Lona on January 16, 2007, 21:45

Thanks for that Rodders.  Never knew they were called fabicons.

Here's some of mine

(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mist.eclipse.co.uk%2FBabs1.ICO&hash=e58821e5520837f4090a4dd0cbdb33fcf23b635f)

(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mist.eclipse.co.uk%2FFred1.ICO&hash=0edb666fde3f302d8257f6a67185b2537f97bc15)

(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mist.eclipse.co.uk%2FCookie1.ICO&hash=21fceb965909668abcbd4bdd3c7ce0de8a18cb45)

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: sam on January 16, 2007, 22:55

i put one on my website a while ago but decided it was ultimately useless and no one really notices them.

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Rodders on January 16, 2007, 23:01

Oh bugger.  I wish you'd told me 10 minutes ago...  (https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv300%2FMothballs%2FPC-Pals%2FPCPico.png&hash=814820f93c81040b2202339cdad32e4d71da3d8b)

 

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: sam on January 16, 2007, 23:06

why are you bringing up angel dust?

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Rodders on January 16, 2007, 23:09

I probably ate too much of it.   :ack:

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: sam on January 16, 2007, 23:28

explains a few things.

Title: Re: Grabbing a favicon
Post by: Reno on January 17, 2007, 00:02

See i would normally just go straight for the .ico file on the websites server, but in this case the sites dead and all thats left is the itty bitty one on firefox. If firefox stores them somewhere locally there should be a way to dig them out.