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Flavicons not appearing

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Daedal007
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The Flavicons I have for the websites I manage do not appear correctly when saved on Bookmarks. Their appearance is inconsistent. For one, sometimes the correct Flavicon appears; other times it is changed to the flavicon of my webhost. Note: on other browsers the flavicons are consistent. For another client, the Flavicon is blank on the bookmark tool bar. Why is this happening only on Mozilla?

The Flavicons I have for the websites I manage do not appear correctly when saved on Bookmarks. Their appearance is inconsistent. For one, sometimes the correct Flavicon appears; other times it is changed to the flavicon of my webhost. Note: on other browsers the flavicons are consistent. For another client, the Flavicon is blank on the bookmark tool bar. Why is this happening only on Mozilla?

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cor-el
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If you use Sync then best is to disconnect Sync temporarily during troubleshooting.

This can be caused by a problem with the places.sqlite and favicons.sqlite databases in the Firefox profile folder.

  • use "Verify Integrity" button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page

If errors are reported with "Verify Integrity", close and restart Firefox and retry.

If "Verify Integrity" cannot repair places.sqlite, rename/remove all places.sqlite and favicons.sqlite files in the Firefox profile folder. Firefox will rebuild places.sqlite and restore the bookmarks from a recent JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder.

  • keep a backup copy of places.sqlite in case a new places.sqlite database has to be created

See also:

You can use the button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page.