HTML favicon won t show on google chrome

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I am making a HTML page that is unpublished   One of the things I wanted to do was add a favicon to appear next to the title  I m using google chrome and I noticed that other websites have favicons that appear next to the tile in the browser  but the one I m trying to display won t show up  The site in in a folder on my desktop named site  This is the code     lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt        lt head gt           lt title gt  lt  title gt           lt link rel  shortcut icon  href   favicon ico    gt       lt  head gt       lt body gt       lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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Another reason for Chrome not displaying the favicon is that it still remembers a time when the site in question did not have a favicon or the favicon was incorrectly configured.

You're going to want to completely wipe the favicon cache:

Exit all running Chrome processes.

Delete the Favicons file in your user data folder. For example:

C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Favicons

This can not be resolved by clearing the browser cache, as it does not affect the Favicons container.

Also note that, contrary to what you might read online, requests to favicon resources are not shown in the Network panel of the DevTools. Under very rare circumstances, one such request may show up there, but it is highly unlikely and the DevTools will not help you solve your favicon woes.

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I moved ico file to root folder and link it  It worked for me   Also  in chrome  I have to wait 30 mins to get cache cleared and new changes to take affect

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Your html is completely wrong for starters  there should not be a div within your head section  nor after your body section   I suggest you look into correct html first before starting to work with favicons etc

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These are the locations where browsers store the Temporary data in Linux   Note  you can see hidden files in File Manager using  Ctrl   H for Terminal use the command   ls -la  Chromium    cache chromium  profile  Cache   Google Chrome    cache google-chrome  profile  Cache   Also  Chromium and Google Chrome store some additional cache at    config chromium  profile  Application Cache Cache    and    config google-chrome  profile  Application Cache Cache   and generally here   tmp   so to apply new FAVICON or try to show it up is to clean them make sure u are inside each of these directories use the command  rm -rf

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It doesn t look like Chrome allows you to display the favicon in the address bar     http   en wikipedia org wiki Favicon Use of favicon  I ve also seen it done like this  Don t know if it would make a difference or not    lt link rel  icon  href   favicon ico    gt

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The path must be via the URI   full    Like  http   example com favicon png  so in your case    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt        lt head profile  http   www w3 org 2005 10 profile  gt           lt title gt  lt  title gt           lt link rel  shortcut icon                 type  image png                 href   http   example com favicon png    gt       lt  head gt       lt body gt       lt  body gt   lt  html gt    Ref  http   www w3 org 2005 10 howto-favicon

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1  Clear your chache  http   support google com chrome bin answer py hl en amp answer 95582 And test another browser  lets say safari  How did you import the favicon   2  How you should add it   Normal favicon    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    3  Another thing could be the problem that chrome can t display favicons  if it s local  not uploaded to a webserver    4  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   5  Found another solution for this which works great  I simply added my favicon as Base64 Encoded Image directly inside the  tag like this    lt link href  data image x-icon base64 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Since you have a leading   in your href  you are referencing a file that will be in the root-folder  In case you have your page in a folder on your computer  not serving it from a local webserver  the leading   will tell the browser to look in the root folder of your filesystem  So the browser expect the file to be at C  favicon ico or similar  which is probably not what you ve expected   If you have the favicon ico in the same folder as the web page  you could just remove the leading slash  and the icon should be visible    lt link rel  shortcut icon  href  favicon ico    gt    Update   As a debug option  your could try to add a tag that you know works  I borrowed this snippet from the StackOverflow source  Try replacing your link tag with this and see if you get the SO logo as your favicon    lt link rel  shortcut icon         href  http   cdn sstatic net stackoverflow img favicon ico  gt    Update 2   It appears that there is a bug reported on Chromium where the favicon isn t displayed if the file is loaded locally  without being served through a webserver

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Note if you have so many tabs open that Google Chrome is only showing the favicons then Google Chrome won t show the favicon for the selected tab  so if you keep reloading the tab with your page loaded in order to see your new favicon you will only see the text of your page s title   You will need to reload your page  and then select a different tab in order to see your favicon

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This issue was driving me nuts  The solution is quite easy actually  just add the following to the header tag    lt link rel  profile  href  http   gmpg org xfn 11  gt    For example    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt        lt head gt           lt title gt  lt  title gt           lt link rel  profile  href  http   gmpg org xfn 11  gt           lt link rel  icon  href   favicon ico    gt

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This trick works  add  this  script  in  header or masterPage  for Example       var link   document createElement  link        link type    image x-icon       link rel    shortcut icon       link href     favicon png     and will be cached  It s not optimal  but it works

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A common issue where the favicon will not show up when expected is cache  if your  htaccess for example reads   ExpiresByType image x-icon  access plus 1 month   Then simply add a random value to your favicon reference           lt link rel  shortcut icon  href  https   example com favicon ico r 31241  type  image x-icon    gt   Works every time for me even with heavy caching

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For me the problem was that there was a div above it  which of course shouldn t have been in the head  but it happens   Firefox didn t mind  but Chrome did

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I ve found that  at Chrome 56  OSX  the favicon state appears to be cached for the browser lifetime  so if a favicon isn t being loaded  it won t be until after restarting Chrome  It appears that it doesn t show up in the  application  tab in dev tools and isn t cleared by a hard reload or  Clear site data

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