Synced bookmarks no longer show icons.
I haven't seen this problem mentioned here anywhere. My bookmarks have synced nicely among my three computers, but none of the synced bookmarks shows an icon next to it anymore. All I get is a blank square where the icon should be. 1. Has anyone else had this problem? 2. How do I get the icons to sync with the bookmarks?
Thanks everybody!
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Sorry, web site icons aren't synced with bookmarks. The amount of data being synced would be increased by at least twenty-fold if the icons were included.
Check Places has a feature that looks for and downloads icons for web sites.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/checkplaces/
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Sorry, web site icons aren't synced with bookmarks. The amount of data being synced would be increased by at least twenty-fold if the icons were included.
Check Places has a feature that looks for and downloads icons for web sites.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/checkplaces/
Thanks Ed. I'll look at Check Places.
Edit: Installed Check Places. It restored about 80 percent of the icons but still left me with about a dozen blanks. I'll have to reload those by hand. Thanks again, Ed.
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Just to add more info to the answer, Favicons (website icon) sync is coming soon (Fx 11 probably).
I synchronized my new computer with my three other computers and lost all of the Bookmark Toolbar icons. Only empty squares and names remained. For many of the bookmarks, I had no names at all, since the icons identified the bookmarks. When I visited the site using the Bookmark Toolbar, the icons were restored! Problem solved.
You can restore the favicons with this extension: