Missing Favicons
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Missing Favicons
Afternoon...
Since the upgrade to 60.02 I have lost all of my bookmark favicons, not some, all of them.
I have no clue how to get them back without going to every site - I did do that with about 200 bookmarks after the upgrade - but, they didn't remain after I rebooted the next morning.
Any solution that will restore them en mass?
This gets tiresome after all these versions of Firefox...
Thanks, in advance.
Since the upgrade to 60.02 I have lost all of my bookmark favicons, not some, all of them.
I have no clue how to get them back without going to every site - I did do that with about 200 bookmarks after the upgrade - but, they didn't remain after I rebooted the next morning.
Any solution that will restore them en mass?
This gets tiresome after all these versions of Firefox...
Thanks, in advance.
- dickvl
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Re: Missing Favicons
This can happen if there has been a problem with places.sqlite or favicons.sqlite.
The latter stores favicon data.
You will have to revisit each bookmark to make Firefox retrieve its favicon.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
The latter stores favicon data.
You will have to revisit each bookmark to make Firefox retrieve its favicon.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
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Re: Missing Favicons
Dick,
As always, thanks.
Not likely going to do this, I have almost 4000 bookmarks.
The issue I am most concerned with, as mentioned, is that I did this for about 200 sites just to see, the next morning when I booted up, they were gone again.
As always, thanks.
Not likely going to do this, I have almost 4000 bookmarks.
The issue I am most concerned with, as mentioned, is that I did this for about 200 sites just to see, the next morning when I booted up, they were gone again.
- RobertJ
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Re: Missing Favicons
Shot in the dark. After changing that many favicons it will likely take FF a bit of time to update favicons.sqlite when shutting down. Make sure FF is completely shut down before you shut down your computer.tpaulr wrote: I did do that with about 200 bookmarks after the upgrade - but, they didn't remain after I rebooted the next morning.
You might also try something a little less extensive. Test with 20 bookmarks, shut down FF and when you are sure it is shut down reboot your computer and see what happens.
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- DanRaisch
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Re: Missing Favicons
You're not running any clean up utilities like Ccleaner, are you?
What security software is running on that system?
What security software is running on that system?
- therube
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Re: Missing Favicons
What did you upgrade from?Since the upgrade to 60.02
Fire 750, bring back 250.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
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Re: Missing Favicons
Let's take them in order...
Robert J: Will try a smaller control group, will make sure FF is shut down completely.
Dan: No, after being on this forum for 14 years, I absolutely don't use things like CC Cleaner. I use Panda real-time.
Rube: Upgraded from 60.01, been a steady progression of upgrades right along. I had all of my favicons in 60 and 60.01, no issues, in fact, no issues for years, maybe 2005 or so since the last issue with favicons.
Thanks...
Robert J: Will try a smaller control group, will make sure FF is shut down completely.
Dan: No, after being on this forum for 14 years, I absolutely don't use things like CC Cleaner. I use Panda real-time.
Rube: Upgraded from 60.01, been a steady progression of upgrades right along. I had all of my favicons in 60 and 60.01, no issues, in fact, no issues for years, maybe 2005 or so since the last issue with favicons.
Thanks...
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Re: Missing Favicons
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Check your Profile folder & see if you might have anything odd in there, like incremented file names; places-1.sqlite, places-2.sqlite, places-3.sqlite ...
Then mighty strange that they would up & go with 60.0.2.)I had all of my favicons in 60 and 60.0.1
If you add, change a bookmark, is that retained after a browser restart?I have no clue how to get them back without going to every site - I did do that with about 200 bookmarks after the upgrade - but, they didn't remain after I rebooted the next morning.
Check your Profile folder & see if you might have anything odd in there, like incremented file names; places-1.sqlite, places-2.sqlite, places-3.sqlite ...
Fire 750, bring back 250.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
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Re: Missing Favicons
Rube,
Nothing funky in my profile that I can see.
Not having trouble saving bookmarks. I bookmarked about 15 sites today, but no favicons.
I did change about 25 earlier, favicons were added to some bookmarks, some, no favicons added even after I closed and re-opened.
Geekwire is one of them, can't get the favicon to render, no matter what, same with the Wirecutter, Siemens, Toms Hardware, a number of them.
Any ideas?
Thanks...
Nothing funky in my profile that I can see.
Not having trouble saving bookmarks. I bookmarked about 15 sites today, but no favicons.
I did change about 25 earlier, favicons were added to some bookmarks, some, no favicons added even after I closed and re-opened.
Geekwire is one of them, can't get the favicon to render, no matter what, same with the Wirecutter, Siemens, Toms Hardware, a number of them.
Any ideas?
Thanks...
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Re: Missing Favicons
Any ideas?
Excuse me.
First I do not recall the exact details or exactly when but there was a change in the format of favicons a while back and how Firefox stores them. It had something to do with the size and the quality of the favicon. The 'new ones', if available, provided by the website would replace the 'old ones' else you would get a blank. It was discussed here some time ago.
Perhaps someone with more free time than I have can find this?
- dickvl
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Re: Missing Favicons
You can check these browser.chrome preferences on the about:config page.
browser.chrome.favicons
browser.chrome.site_icons
Try to rename or remove favicons.sqlite in case there is a problem with the file.
browser.chrome.favicons
browser.chrome.site_icons
Try to rename or remove favicons.sqlite in case there is a problem with the file.
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Re: Missing Favicons
Dick,
Thanks.
Already checked the config, they are both true.
Looks like I'm going to have to just bite the bullet and remove the file, visit all 4000+ bookmarks.
Not going to happen anytime soon, unfortunately, got a business to run...
Thanks.
Thanks.
Already checked the config, they are both true.
Looks like I'm going to have to just bite the bullet and remove the file, visit all 4000+ bookmarks.
Not going to happen anytime soon, unfortunately, got a business to run...
Thanks.
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Re: Missing Favicons
Dick,
As I get around to some of my bookmarks in the normal course of my business over the past few days, I noticed that no favicon shows up even after I go to the site.
They did a few days ago, they were gone after I closed FF, but they were there during that session.
I looked at my profile this morning to see what is going on and I now have 3 favicon files:
favicon.sqlite....5120 KB
favicon.sqlite-shm...32 KB
favicon.sqlite-wal...2050 KB
Have no idea what the other 2 are or where they came from, they were dated as of this morning.
Can I safely get rid of the 2 new files?
Should I get rid of all 3?
Please let me know...
Thanks so much.
As I get around to some of my bookmarks in the normal course of my business over the past few days, I noticed that no favicon shows up even after I go to the site.
They did a few days ago, they were gone after I closed FF, but they were there during that session.
I looked at my profile this morning to see what is going on and I now have 3 favicon files:
favicon.sqlite....5120 KB
favicon.sqlite-shm...32 KB
favicon.sqlite-wal...2050 KB
Have no idea what the other 2 are or where they came from, they were dated as of this morning.
Can I safely get rid of the 2 new files?
Should I get rid of all 3?
Please let me know...
Thanks so much.
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Re: Missing Favicons
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The files
favicons.sqlite-shm...32 KB
favicons.sqlite-wal...2050 KB
are temporary and only exist when FF is running. They are used to speed FF and update favicons.sqlite during the FF shutdown process.
THEY SHOULD NOT EXIST WHEN FF IS NOT RUNNING.
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The files
favicons.sqlite-shm...32 KB
favicons.sqlite-wal...2050 KB
are temporary and only exist when FF is running. They are used to speed FF and update favicons.sqlite during the FF shutdown process.
THEY SHOULD NOT EXIST WHEN FF IS NOT RUNNING.
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Last edited by RobertJ on June 24th, 2018, 8:40 am, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Added s's per therube's post
Reason: Added s's per therube's post
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- therube
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Re: Missing Favicons
(The file name is, favicons.sqlite, not favicon.sqlite.
If you actually have favicon.sqlite...)
If you actually have favicon.sqlite...)
Fire 750, bring back 250.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript