Firefox question: Getting favicon into bookmarks toolbar

[The Eclectic Electric]

At the minute I'm just fannying on as I try to relearn the HTML I used to
know and get up to speed with all the new tricks, but one thing that's
bugging me at the minute is that even though my favicon displays in the URL
bar and on the tab, it does not appear next to the site name in the
bookmarks toolbar. I've tried deleting and re-adding the bookmark but this
doesn't work either. The only other websites who aren't displaying favicons
are those that don't have them. Is there a something I'm missing?

http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.houghton/index.htm

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[Neredbojias]

With neither quill nor qualm, The Eclectic Electric quothed:

At the minute I'm just fannying on as I try to relearn the HTML I used to
know and get up to speed with all the new tricks, but one thing that's
bugging me at the minute is that even though my favicon displays in the URL
bar and on the tab, it does not appear next to the site name in the
bookmarks toolbar. I've tried deleting and re-adding the bookmark but this
doesn't work either. The only other websites who aren't displaying favicons
are those that don't have them. Is there a something I'm missing?

http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.houghton/index.htm

try this:

<link rel="icon"
href="http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.houghton/favicon.ico"
type="image/x-icon">

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

At the minute I'm just fannying on as I try to relearn the HTML I
used to know and get up to speed with all the new tricks, but one
thing that's bugging me at the minute is that even though my
favicon displays in the URL bar and on the tab, it does not appear
next to the site name in the bookmarks toolbar. I've tried
deleting and re-adding the bookmark but this doesn't work either.
The only other websites who aren't displaying favicons are those
that don't have them. Is there a something I'm missing?

http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.houghton/index.htm

I see your favicon in Firefox, both in the location bar, and on the
tab, but not when bookmarking it. Try adding the word shortcut to the
link, and adding the type. I use the following two lines:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

Your page also wanted to install plugins, and apparently play two
different pieces of music at the same time. Not nice. :-(

 

[The Eclectic Electric]

I see your favicon in Firefox, both in the location bar, and on the tab,
but not when bookmarking it. Try adding the word shortcut to the link, and
adding the type. I use the following two lines:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

I've tried both of those methods and neither makes a difference. But thanks
for your suggestion.

Your page also wanted to install plugins, and apparently play two
different pieces of music at the same time. Not nice. :-(

Interesting!!!! It doesn't on mine, but I guess that's because I have the
plugins ready installed. Should only be Quicktime plugin though - is that
right? And it plays sounds on a mouseover - the page is basically testing
mousover with preload, part of my grand scheme (scratches chin).

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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

I've tried both of those methods and neither makes a difference.
But thanks for your suggestion.

If we are still discussing the above page, you have:

<link rel="icon"
href="http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.houghton/favicon.ico"/>

...which is not the *two* lines I suggested. Copy and paste *both* of
those lines into your page.

Interesting!!!! It doesn't on mine, but I guess that's because I
have the plugins ready installed. Should only be Quicktime plugin
though - is that right? And it plays sounds on a mouseover - the
page is basically testing mousover with preload, part of my grand
scheme (scratches chin).

Don't know. I already have Quicktime installed, so that's not it. I do
not allow unknown plugins to install.

Mouseover? Ahh, JavaScript. But no matter, nothing happens,
musicwise, whether I have it enabled or not.

If we've not discussed your invalid code, please visit:
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.houghton/index.htm>

Note that your page is not structured properly. The first line should
be a doctype, preferrably Strict. See:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
and use:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

The next line should be <html>.

Your "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">" should be:
<script type="text/javascript"> ... </script>

...and so forth.

 

[The Eclectic Electric]

If we are still discussing the above page, you have:

<link rel="icon"
href="http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.houghton/favicon.ico"/>

..which is not the *two* lines I suggested. Copy and paste *both* of those
lines into your page.

I've had both lines in a previous incarnation and it still didn't work.
I've since been to a professional site taht didn't do it, so I know I'm not
alone. However, IMDB, which previously didn't have an icon in the bookmarks
toolbar now does.

Don't know. I already have Quicktime installed, so that's not it. I do not
allow unknown plugins to install.

Mouseover? Ahh, JavaScript. But no matter, nothing happens, musicwise,
whether I have it enabled or not.

If we've not discussed your invalid code, please visit:
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://freespace.virgin.net/phil.houghton/index.htm>

Note that your page is not structured properly. The first line should be a
doctype, preferrably Strict. See:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
and use:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

The next line should be <html>.

Your "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">" should be:
<script type="text/javascript"> ... </script>

..and so forth.

Intriguing!!! Well, it's very early days at the minute, but thanks for the
pointers. Everything works fine on my PC, but of course that's of no use
whatsoever. Mystified as to what plugin is wanting to install.

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