alterna wrote:^ Good news, but odd choice of thread to post in.
Just thought I'd note that removing favicons in places.sqlite removes the History favicons, and now that Firefox stores favicon data for History, Places.sqlite can become quite large
I posted here because when the "Make Firefox 3 Beta NOT update favicons..." in FF Builds was locked it was suggested to continue discussion in this thread.
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Although it's not immediately obvious, this thread is about Firefox 3. Favicon removal has never been a problem prior to FF3, as users could either use the Favicon Picker extension to remove or a command such as you quoted.
However, when this thread began, the Favicon Picker extension did not work with FF3, hence the suggestions of manually editing the Bookmarks/History sqlite, but a new version of it is now available for FF3. So...problem now solved.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
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A linux user will always prefer a simple command line to do something, than adding extensions. I will investigate Fx3 the day I switch to Fx 3. (if I do).
Diorser wrote:A linux user will always prefer a simple command line to do something, than adding extensions.
As a user of both Kubuntu and Kanotix, I sorta already knew that. However, 90+% of Firefox users are using a M$ Windows OS, which is why I mentioned the alternative..
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
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Do I understand this correctly? That Favicons can be used to track web activity?
I cannot follow this entire thread, a lot of it is too technical for me, so can you please just tell me if Favicons can be used to track browsing? cheers
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of ignorance, is for good men to not answer questions." "And I DID NOT PM you for support... I kept it on the board, so someone... anyone, hopefully, can answer it
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In order to avoid an extra extension, and manual deletion operations which can be quite boring, a simple script can erase all favicons when launching Firefox, or once a week for instance, or at system start, by using the sed and cron commands for linux users.
Sure a similar solution might exist for windows, but I am not a windows shell expert.
That is for Firefox 2, where it is in a HTML file. THIS thread is about FIREFOX 3 where the Favicons are in places.sqlite you would need to use a sqlite database tool to do the task...
This is Scarletrunner20's initial Question...
Scarletrunner20 wrote:I have no favicons anywhere...bookmarks or any place else in Fx 1.5 and 2 and I don't want any in Fx3. How do I get rid of them in bookmarks?
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Please DO NOT PM me for support... Lets keep it on the board, so we can all learn.
As it is Scarletrunner's topic, the question that Scarletrunner posed in the first post.... is the one that is relevant for this topic.
Re read the rules about taking threads off topic. Scarlettrunner had no problem with Firefox 2 and 1.5 .... The question was asked about Firefox 3, and Scarletrunner is a WINDOWS user.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein
Please DO NOT PM me for support... Lets keep it on the board, so we can all learn.
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