No more RSS autodetect in Firefox? - firefox

I'm creating an RSS feed out of some articles using CakePHP, but it doesn't show up in Firefox like it used to.
To be more precise: there used to be an RSS icon in the addressbar, but now it's not there.
Is adding this to the head element not enough?
<link href="http://domain.be/index.rss" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" title="News">

Your link element seems reasonable, however note that Firefox 4 removed the RSS icon from the URL bar. Sorry, but I can't remember what they did with it; however for testing purposes you could try using SeaMonkey which still has an RSS icon in its URL bar.

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Where does Firefox get the icons for the website tiles on the home page

In firefox the home page has a grid of tiles for website links.
These tiles have icons but they are not the site favicons.
Eg. for
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scores-fixtures
Firefox got this ;
But
https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scores-fixtures gets this ;
Anyone know how/where Firefox gets the icon ?
I suppose firefox gets it from the HTML's metadata. Taking a look at the source code, it contains entries like these:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://m.files.bbci.co.uk/modules/bbc-morph-sport-page/3.3.2/images/bbc-sport-logo.png"/>
which links to this image:
https://m.files.bbci.co.uk/modules/bbc-morph-sport-page/3.3.2/images/bbc-sport-logo.png
The og:image name comes from the Open Graph protocol.

Change image icon in addressbar of browser

I searched through many sites, but I failed to get an answer.
Question :
I want to change icon as per given in below image in my browser.
Currently chrome and Mozilla does not support this feature if you want check you can check it in either ie or safari, it will show where you want.
you should add this tag to head
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<YOUR ICON PATH>">
this is a tool to help you to create icon using converter
http://www.favicongenerator.com/
Those are called "favicons", and you can set one for your website using a special tag in the HEAD of your HTML. You can find many tutorials on this by Googling (now that you know what they're called).
Wikipedia suggests a tag something like this:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/myicon.ico" />
As an alternative, your website can provide an image named favicon.ico in the root folder.
That icon names "favicon". To create Something like that go to THIS LINK, Upload an image and get the favicon.ico file, then put it next to your template page on your host.
To get more information go HERE.

Why is Chrome referencing "data:text/css," in all websites?

Whilst debugging a website I found this tag below the body of the page I was debugging:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="data:text/css,">
and I thought that some crazy Javascript-Error was adding this to my site. But I could not find anything like that in all of the project's source-code.
After checking back with Firefox I noticed, that only Chrome displays this tag in the Elements-, Resources- and Network-View. It is not visible in the "View Source" of Chrome though.
What is this about?
I experienced the same strange css link, and found that it is due to the AdBlockPlus (ADB) extension for Chrome that I have enabled. When I disable that extension, the link no longer occurs.

Favicon.ico on multi-domain sites?

We’re using add-on domains for our multi-site Magento setup running off one skin file on domain1.com and was wondering how we go about setting up a favicon for each store?
We will have a total of 10 domains by the time we finish setting up this project so obviously want 10 different favicon’s.
I’ve tried this - http://vanesz.awardspace.info/magento_favicon_tweak/
Which works in some respect and show’s the relevant icon on things like google webmaster tools but it doesn’t work as a bookmark icon and as an icon at the top of the page on browsers like chrome.
Any help on this would be great.
Here's a post about that:
http://drupal.org/node/17704
Basically, you do this:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
and change href to whatever you want.

Help! Validation issue with slideshow?

Hi I'm trying to validate my website but it complains about my slideshow
Is this because its using html? Should I ignore it?
validator link
<embed
src="http://artygirl.co.uk/imagerotator/imagerotator.swf" width="632px" height="308px"
flashvars="file=http://artygirl.co.uk/imagerotator/rotator.xml&transition=blocks&shownavigation=false"
/>
Thanks for your help
Regards
Judi
According to the HTML spec, (rather than ) is the tag to use for embedded content. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer supports the tag, which FF, Chrome, Safari, etc support the tag.
So how do you create valid content with Flash embedded?
After a web page has loaded, you can
insert the embed tag, effectively
circumventing the XHTML problems. As a
bonus, you can use JavaScript to
determine whether the correct Flash
Plugin is available on your visitor's
computer. If it isn’t, alternative
content can be loaded.
– LongTail Video's Embedding Flash tutorial
Hopefully this answers your question about how to embed your content in a standards compliant way.
Best,
Zach
Developer, LongTail Video

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