Favicon not showing up in Google Chrome

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Chris picture Chris · May 4, 2013 · Viewed 244.2k times · Source

I have a favicon icon which isn't showing up in Chrome (I'm not sure about other browsers as I only use Chrome) but the strange thing is if I type the path to the icon in the URL bar it shows up!

Why doesn't the icon appear?

Answer

DominikAngerer picture DominikAngerer · May 4, 2013

Cache

Clear your cache. http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95582 And test another browser.

Some where able to get an updated favicon by adding an URL parameter: ?v=1 after the link href which changes the resource link and therefore loads the favicon without cache (thanks @Stanislav). 

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico?v=2"  />

Favicon Usage

How did you import the favicon? How you should add it.

Normal favicon:

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

PNG/GIF favicon:

<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="favicon.gif" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png" />

in the <head> Tag.

Chrome local problem

Another thing could be the problem that chrome can't display favicons, if it's local (not uploaded to a webserver). Only if the file/icon would be in the downloads directory chrome is allowed to load this data - more information about this can be found here: local (file://) website favicon works in Firefox, not in Chrome or Safari- why?

Renaming

Try to rename it from favicon.{whatever} to {yourfaviconname}.{whatever} but I would suggest you to still have the normal favicon. This has solved my issue on IE.

Base64 approach

Found another solution for this which works great! I simply added my favicon as Base64 Encoded Image directly inside the tag like this:

<link 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rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" />

Used this page here for this: http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp

Generate favicons

I can really suggest you this page: http://www.favicon-generator.org/ to create all types of favicons you need.

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