Comments on: Quick Tip: Disable Favicons in Firefox

By: M90

M90 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:14:06 +0000

There is an add-on for this.
“Favicon Picker 3″

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:23:38 +0000

It’s too bad there is no way to only disable animated favicons.

Firefox’s impossible to remove animated icons “feature” has made it necessary for many people such as myself to completely disable favicons. I am starting to miss them, and hope that Mozilla fixes this bug soon.

By: Waide

Waide — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:37:14 +0000

Similarly related, I have a few RSS feeds and I would love to understand why FF (3.0.13) will randomly load the favicons on the feeds and other days they are entirely missing.

By: Warren

Warren — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:31:21 +0000

Hey – I managed to find the solution… Do the two steps turning off the browser.chrome.favicons and browser.chrome.site_icons as mentioned above…

These should stop Firefox remembering any more favicons or displaying new ones in the toolbar..

THEN

Quit firefox – then search for and delete the file called places.sqlite in your firefox prefs

this will delete the favicons that firefox is currently remembering.. Don’t worry – the file is regenerated when firefox is next run..

restart firefox – bingo – no favicons in my bookmarks menu and a no more “making a cup of tea waiting for the favicons to load” any more…

hope this works well for everybody..

Warren..

By: Warren

Warren — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:10:04 +0000

I too was hopeful of this removing the Famicons in my bookmarks drop down – but this trick doesn’t work in 3.0.7. – shame…

I DO have a lot of bookmarks – and every time I go to the bookmark drop down Firefox just beachballs for ten seconds or more while it loads in all the graphics for the Famicons. Not what you’d call a useful feature as far as I’m concerned..it really sucks.

Anyway it still does it even with the above trick of “turning them off” – which doesn’t seem to work in current versions of Firefox…

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:47:25 +0000

Hi,

This is a little off topic, but very favicon related! (And I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere.)

Do you know of a way to change/replace the default “sheet of paper with the corner folded over” favicon that Firefox 3 uses when a site does not provide its own favicon? I have been searching and searching for an answer on this and just can’t seem to find anything. I am hoping to drop my own default favicon in place, so that when I go to a site without a favicon, I will see my own little default favicon.

Thanks so much,
Jay

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:57:30 +0000

(aagh… if I’d known my colon/LC o/close parenthesis would be displayed as an emoticon, I wouldn’t have used it. : o )

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:55:07 +0000

Hi-
I was hopeful, but it didn’t work for me either. Is it FF3? …or does this only address the address bar icons and not bookmarks too? (Regarding why I want to disable the favicons: it may be subjective, but I think I see the bookmark text faster without being distracted by the icon and having to process it, too.)

Thanks for looking at this,

Dale
(”You have to believe in free will, you have no choice.” I.B. Singer )

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:06:05 +0000

Hi there!

Thanks for this tip – but for some reason it won’t work! Both settings have been disabled but Firefox just ignores this… any idea why?

Thanks in advance!

Martin

By: Sniper-Wolf33

Sniper-Wolf33 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:39:47 +0000

Thanks so much for the tip!