Favicon not showing up in Google Chrome

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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

User · Answer

Upload your favicon ico to the root directory of your website and that should work with Chrome  Some browsers disregard the meta tag and just use  favicon ico  Go figure

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Cache  Clear your cache  http   support google com chrome bin answer py hl en amp 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      lt link rel  icon  type  image x-icon  href  favicon ico v 2     gt    Favicon Usage  How did you import the favicon  How you should add it   Normal favicon    lt link rel  icon  href  favicon ico  type  image x-icon    gt   lt link rel  shortcut icon  href  favicon ico  type  image x-icon    gt    PNG GIF favicon    lt link rel  icon  type  image gif  href  favicon gif    gt   lt link rel  icon  type  image png  href  favicon png    gt    in the  lt head gt  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 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I also experienced the same thing  I found out that my favicon ico had not been processed as a legitimate shortcut icon  I understand that favicons must be scaled to 16x16 and follow the Microsoft Icon format

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I read a bunch of different entries till I finally found a solution that worked for my scenario  ASP NET MVC4 project     Instead of using the filename favicon ico for my icon  I renamed it to something else  ie myIcon ico   Then I just used exactly what Domi posted     lt link rel  shortcut icon  href  myIcon ico  type  image x-icon    gt   And this worked    It s not a caching issue because I tested this with Fiddler - a request for favicon never occurred  even if I cleared my cache  From the beginning of time    I believe it s just some odd bug with chrome

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