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Firefox 16.0 seems to have broken the fave icon if it is NOT a 16 X 16 pixel size.

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Eurythrace
Eurythrace

Just upgraded to FF 16.0 and so far it appears only 16 X 16 pixel icons are being loaded in the tab. All others give the dashed border blank icon. See the attached image which is a cropped screen shot of this question's webpage. The favicon is supposed to be a 32 X 32 pixel Firefox logo (verified from the page source), but obviously it isn't. Please fix this ASAP!

Just upgraded to FF 16.0 and so far it appears only 16 X 16 pixel icons are being loaded in the tab. All others give the dashed border blank icon. See the attached image which is a cropped screen shot of this question's webpage. The favicon is supposed to be a 32 X 32 pixel Firefox logo (verified from the page source), but obviously it isn't. Please fix this ASAP!

Modified by Eurythrace

Chosen solution

After disabling all add-ons/extensions and re-enabling them one by one, I isolated the culprit down to the Hotspot Shield Helper 1.0 extension. I hope this will help someone else. Thanks for all of your helpful suggestions.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Does this pref have the default value?

  • browser.chrome.image_icons.max_size
Eurythrace
Eurythrace Question owner

The value for browser.chrome.image_icons.max_size is: default | integer | 1024. All the favicons were working fine up until a couple hours ago when I upgraded from FF 15.0.1 to FF 16.0. I made no other changes, especially not to that parameter. This clearly seems to be a bug introduced into FF 16.0.

cor-el
cor-el
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No problems here with that 32x32 icon file on the tab bar.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
Eurythrace
Eurythrace Question owner

Chosen Solution

After disabling all add-ons/extensions and re-enabling them one by one, I isolated the culprit down to the Hotspot Shield Helper 1.0 extension. I hope this will help someone else. Thanks for all of your helpful suggestions.

LauraLee
LauraLee

For all those who have problems with favicons on tabs on some site found a solution on some site that worked for me

go to:

about:config

type favicons

find browser.chrome.favicons

if it's false

make it true


just found this only works until i close firefox. when i open it again it still says false so you have to change it permanently in your User.js file in profile folder

Modified by LauraLee