My bookmark changed icon
I have an icon for "ipgeek.net" a site that displays my public IP. When I connected to a public Boingo WIFI site the icon for "ipgeek.net" changed to the icon for Boingo.
Can anyone tell me what occurred?
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Try to reload the favicon with the FavIcon Reloader extension You can find "Reload Favorites Icons" in the Bookmarks menu.
- FavIcon Reloader: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/faviconreloader/
The orignal site does not have any icon so an application to correct is over kill.
I'm more interested as to how a web site is able to access part of the bookmarked file information.
Websites can do a reverse DNS look up of your IP to determine your location and other data.
You can use websites like these to see how your location is reported via a reverse DNS look up of your IP:
No. this does not have anything to do with DNS reverse lookup. a website IPgeek, while visiting another site Boingo wifi verification suddenly the bookmark icon changed for IPgeek. This suggests the site is able to access the icon information on Firefox. see enclosed icon displaying Boingo.
