You can drag the favicon on the left end of the location bar onto the desktop to create a shortcut.
If you create an internet shortcut that way then that shortcut gets the icon of the default browser.
If you want a different icon (favicon) then you have to assign that icon yourself to the desktop shortcut (right-click: Properties).
You can usually get the favicon if you append "favicon.ico" to the main domain of a website (e.g. http://www.mozilla.com/favicon.ico ) to display the favicon in a tab and save that image to a folder or see if you can find it in "Tools > Page Info > Media".

Thanks,

I kwnow that. Let me give an example: I use LightRoom, with IE or Chrome I get a nice LR-icon when I make a shortcut thst is obviously some hidden (where?) Same goes for a visited website, like Adobe.com

Willem

Did you read my above post?

Firefox isn't able to apply an icon to a newly created desktop shortcut.
IE can do that as being written by MS and being closely interlinked with the Windows OS (i.e. possibly using a hidden API).

Yes, I did read it, why do you ask?

How come Google Chrome can do it as well?

Willem.