Few days ago, I've changed the favicon of my website: it works well when I open the website:
My website is also in my bookmarks, but it shows the old favicon:
I already had a look here, but answers did not solved my problem.
The solution is probably very simple, but I have not found anything so far.
Thanks!
There is a solution that works on every browser:
go to www.yourwebsiteurl.com/favicon.ico (works for localhost as well)
force refresh (Ctrl+F5 for most browsers, or manually)
restart the browser
In Firefox 56 on Windows I was able to refresh just a specific bookmark favicon as follows:
Install sqlite-tools from https://www.sqlite.org/download.html
Quit Firefox (close all open Firefox windows).
At the command line, change into your profile directory. Mine was at %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profilename>.default.
Open the favicon.sqlite database using sqlite3:
sqlite3 favicons.sqlite
Find the favicon(s) you want to remove:
select * from moz_icons where icon_url like '%search_term_goes_here%';
Delete them:
delete from moz_icons where icon_url like '%search_term_goes_here%';
Exit.
.exit
Start Firefox and visit the relevant pages. The favicon will be refreshed when you do this.
It's a bit hacky, but try changing the bookmark properties from http to https or vice versa, then clicking the bookmark. If you changed from http to https, just leave it after that. If you changed from https to http, change it back.
Windows
Go to C:\Users\ *your profile* \AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ *random name*.default-*random #*
Delete file: favicons.sqlite
All bookmark favicons will be set to default and will refresh when your revisit the sites.
Tested on version 66.0.1 (64-bit) & 72.0.2 (64-bit)
I had the same issue and in my case, it worked by adding a slash after the url so the browser loads the page from ground up again.
https://www.example.com//
After clicking on the bookmark, the icon was updated immediately.
The solution is from here (See method 2)
MAC OS
The favicon.ico format is pretty archaic now. Any solution to hack/trash/refesh a .ico file is rather pointless when the file may be a PNG. The head element of a page should tell you e.g. for a Drupal page <link rel="icon" href="/sites/default/files/YOUR-ICON.png" type="image/png" />
These Bookmark/History image files are so stubbornly cached, that on MacOS the best solution for me (because I'm comfortable with refreshing ALL icons again over time) is to quit Firefox, then trash the favicons.sqlite file found at
~USERHOMEFOLDER/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/XXXXXXXX.default/favicons.sqlite
The file will be regenerated when you reopen FF. Tabula rasa.
Press Ctrl + F5. This forces a page refresh while clearing the cache. Also, try deleting the bookmark and recreate it. The image is probably cached in different places for the bookmark and the tab. If that doesn't work, try the favicon addon here I also found this code for refreshing it. Paste it into your dev console:
var fS = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/browser/favicon-service;1"]
.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIFaviconService);
fS.expireAllFavicons();
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RESOLVED
Unbeknownst to me, Cloudflare defaults to caching all css/js files for 4 hours.
Scenario:
I add this to our front page:
<span class="test">hullo!</span>
and this to our css file:
.test { font-size:2.0em; }
I do a web deploy, OR full publish to Azure and the span appears on the front page, but not the styling. The css file for some reason does not get updated. FF, IE, Chrome and Safari all confirm it. However, after a seemingly arbitrary time, the css file get updated.
Even when I remote into the Azure VM and restart the app, the styling is unchanged. The app is running on one instance, one role. No Azure Caching is setup. Adding a querystring param to the css file link does not help. Seems like a caching issue but no clue how to resolve.
Any ideas?
"We are using Cloudflare which has a default set up to cache all CSS and JS files. It purges the cache every 4 hours which resulted in the arbitrary updates. So, even though I was adding a new query string to the end of the css file, Cloudflare still cached the old one"
Just a quick note that you should go to CloudFlare Development Mode when making changes to the static content files on your site. You can get to Development Mode to bypass the cache by going to: settings->Development Mode. You also have the option of purging your cache as an additional option, which we would only recommend if you really want to purge everything.
Looks like it's cached by your browser. Can you please try navigate to your site and press Ctrl+F5.
Maybe you can use Fiddler to see if the CSS had been cached, or not updated, or some error when download.
This issue is resolved.
We are using Cloudflare which has a default set up to cache all CSS and JS files. It purges the cache every 4 hours which resulted in the arbitrary updates. So, even though I was adding a new query string to the end of the css file, Cloudflare still cached the old one.
I have dealt with this and I will tell you that from my experience in Chrome you can set a setting that disables the cache in the developer tools, however, I've noticed that unless you have the dev tools window open when you hit Ctrl+F5 it doesn't reload the cache. In IE there is a global setting in the dev tools that will make it redownload everything every time. In Firefox there is also a setting in the dev tools that will require it to download and not use the cache.
One way that you can test this, and how I test this, is by running Fiddler and watching if it does a full download of all your files or if it's caching.
From what I've experienced is that this is truly a browser caching issue and not anything to do with Azure.
Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE work fine.
But Firefox fails to load images.
This site is running on Windows Server 2003 and IIS6. And you have to consider that the image folder is a shared folder.
I have no idea why it’s not shown via Firefox only.
If someone has faced similar problems, please share your solutions with me.
FYI, I checked the option; and Tools > Options > Content tab > Load images automatically is checked.
Thanks for your help!
You need to pur URIs in your src attribute. URIs always use / as a path separator.
No idea how to fix this in ASP; check your manual?
It looks like IE7 doesn't reload the latest version of my stylesheet each time I upload a new version on the server.
This is annoying as I am debugging my .css file to make it work on IE...
Tried to empty the browser cache but still not working.
Thanks for your help.
Ctrl-F5 - forcible way to reload in IE
Include your version number in the file name. myfile_v1234.css
When testing, every time you do an update you can just wite "stylesheet.css?r=98123"
As long as the query string is different, it'll be downloaded again.
If you need, you can use javascript to append Math.random(), to get the random number. Not required on production though, when updates would be stable.
2 Questions:
Does IE eventually load with the newer stylesheet?
How are you saving the changes to the server (SSH, Web Interface, etc.)?
I ask because I ran into an issue with a web-based file management system a while back where one browser would show the CSS just fine, the other wouldn't, and we noticed the issue of which browser played nicely depended on which browser we used to upload the CSS.
The reason turned out to be that IE gave the CSS file a different MIME type than Firefox. If you continue to notice the issue even when you've cleared the cache, check the MIME type of the file using Firefox by going to Tools > Page Info.
Also, if it is simply a caching issue, consider turning caching off in IE. I believe this should be an Advanced Option under Internet Options.
Also, you may want to try creating a special developer environment for IE (if it comes down to it.) Perhaps have another machine with IE7 and no caching and any other features turned off (A kiosk mode, perhaps), and then previewing the page on that machine.
Thanks to you all!
I did manage to solve my problem with the "stupid" Ctrl+F5, and by changing the Internet Parameters of Windows to reload content every new visit.
I have a .asp application where image files (.PDF) are stored in a directory (fed by a copier/scanner). The created file names are stored in a database table. When a query is launched from the web page a link to the file is created. When clicked the image should be displayed.
This functionality works 100% in Internet Explorer. No such luck in Firefox (and I have some Firefox users). The created hyperlink looks like this file://Server/Scanner/XYZ.pdf
The Firefox helps suggest the reason is this:
Links to local or network pages do not work. As a security precaution, Firefox forbids sites on the Internet to link to files that are stored in your local computing environment. These files may include files on your computer, mapped network drives, and UNC network paths
None of the suggestions for a workaround seem to work (or I am not understanding the steps to create the image display)
Any Suggestions?
This is the default Firefox behavior designed for security .The assumption is probably that most web sites don't know what and where are you local files (including UNC paths).
This could be turned off in firefox:
type "about:config" in the address bar and accept "i'll be careful"
find "security.checkloaduri" in older versions or "security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy" in newer versions of firefox and change the value to "false"
restart firefox
That should do it for you. You have more information here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security.fileuri.origin_policy
Firefox >= 68.0.1
I'm able to preview in Firefox both images and PDF files with local file links using the settings mentioned here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303727
I have used links with local file: test
and added in user.js the mentioned settings (with adjusted sites list):
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://my.intranet");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
Also, when setting Firefox to "Always ask" for PDF files, I was able to "Open with" the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, which reported the expected local folder when accessing "File -> Properties".
Firefox >= 1.5.x < 20 (ish)
Search for the Firefox profile folder on your hard drive, e.g. (12345678 stands for eight random digits and letters):
Windows: "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles12345678.default\"
Linux: "/home/username/.mozilla/firefox/12345678.default/"
OS X: /Username/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/12345678.default/
In this folder create a text file with the name user.js. Write the following line into that text file:
user_pref("capability.policy.default.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
Works on my PC (Firefox 3.0.3 and 19.0 beta) with the following references:
<img src="file://///server/share/image.png" />
<img src="file://\\\server\share\image.png" />
<img src="file://d:\image.png" />
<img src="file:///d:\image.png" />
<img src="file://d:/image.png" />
<img src="file:///d:/image.png" />
<img src="file://localhost/d:/image.png" />
Also, if you are using the NoScript add-on, check the Advanced \ Trusted \ Allow local links option.
Reading at the solution given here, I followed the link Links to local pages do not work and for me, only this worked well (I am using wordpress for a personal FAQ on a local wamp installation):
Go to your "%Your Documents & Settings%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\%your profile%\"
edit the file "prefs.js"
add the following lines at the end of the document:
.
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://localhost");
user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.javascript.enabled", "allAccess");
You can leave the setting "security.checkloaduri" to its default value, and also the "security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy". Thanks to those 3 lines, you just make an exception for your local server.
Be careful, if you need to go back to that prefs.js file, note that Firefox will have ordered it alphabetically. So the 3 lines you will have added at the end will be somewhere at the beginning ;).
You can load the LocalLink FireFox Add-On, which allows you to right-click on a local link and select 'Open in Foreground Window'. The other 'Open...' menu items are supposed to work, but don't for me.
http://locallink.mozdev.org/
Also, you can use NoScript, like Alex suggests, which enables normal clicking of local links. Thanks Alex.
Marko's solution should work for links that are also on the local filesystem, but I don't think it should allow an http:// page to link to a file:// page.
The issue for people linking from http:// pages is discussed here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_do_not_work
along with an explanation of how to circumvent it and expose yourself to risk.
You can instead read the file off the disk and then send it in the Response from your page.
See this link for an example.
Tonnes of thanks I wAs searching this solution since months,
::THis thing worked::
This could be turned off in firefox:
* type "about:config" in the address bar and accept "i'll be careful"
* find "security.checkloaduri" in older versions or "security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy" in newer versions of firefox and change the value to "false"
* restart firefox
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shouldn't you really store the pages in your application directory and reference them this way. http://SITENAME/Server/scanner/XYZ.pdf.
We do something similar with files stored all in one directory and just store the file name. we then create the link using the known folder name and append the file name. this works quite well.
Finally firefox is a lot more anal about the directions of the slashes in file names as well. Make sure they are all '/' rather than '\'.
Hope this helps.
beware of incompatibility with gmarks (google toolbar replacer)
both local link and policy manager worked for me; local link is a little smoother, policy manager gives you more control
file://localhost///servername/share/file.txt works for me on FF11
(from a local html file: file:///C:/index.html)
I have a website that I've just uploaded onto the Internet. When I browse to the site using Firefox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu I don't see the favicon; Firefox 3.0.1 on WinXP does display it.
Why isn't the favicon displaying under Ubuntu? It's a favicon.ico file in the root directory, not referenced in the meta tags; would it work better as a GIF?
Previously, there was no favicon. The browser cached the lack of favicon. Clear the Firefox cache, and all is well.
Try taking a look at this previous Question, which shows you must put two meta tags in your html in order for it to work across all browsers and operating systems.