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Icon In Tab Does Not Match Website

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FirefoxQuery79
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The last few days when I open a new tab I sometimes get the icon for reddit instead of the icon for the underlying website I'm actually visiting. For example, both TypePad and YouTube have distinctive icons that usually appear in the tab when I access their sites but a couple of times I've instead gotten the reddit icon even though I have not been to that site in months and regularly clear my cookies, cache,. history, etc. In any event, I've reset my FireFox but curious if anyone has any insight on this issue. Thanks.

The last few days when I open a new tab I sometimes get the icon for reddit instead of the icon for the underlying website I'm actually visiting. For example, both TypePad and YouTube have distinctive icons that usually appear in the tab when I access their sites but a couple of times I've instead gotten the reddit icon even though I have not been to that site in months and regularly clear my cookies, cache,. history, etc. In any event, I've reset my FireFox but curious if anyone has any insight on this issue. Thanks.

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cor-el
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You can try to let all favicons expire to see if that makes Firefox store them properly if you revisit the web page.

You can open the Browser Console (Firefox/Tools > Web Developer) and paste the JavaScript code in the command line and press the Enter key to run the code.

  • Toggle the devtools.chrome.enabled pref on the about:config page to true to enable the command line 
var fS = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/favicon-service;1"]
         .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIFaviconService);
fS.expireAllFavicons();