Browser icons cannot be seen on desktop

Hello joliboisdk,

We would like to see how we can help you with your Mac. Which macOS version are you currently running? Simply using safe mode may resolve this issue. What we need to do is see if the problem persists during safe mode. Here are the steps we’ll need to take to do so: How to use safe mode on your Mac

After the device boots into safe mode, try to reproduce the problem. Knowing whether or not the problem persists in safe mode will provide valuable insight as to how deep the problem may be rooted.

If safe mode does not work, or the restart after a successful boot into safe mode does not work, please contact us back with the results so we can troubleshoot further.

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These are the customary .webloc icons that are produced by Safari or Firefox. Do not expect any other icon styling as these are assigned by the operating system for this XML-style document format. There is no information stored within a .webloc file such as a thumbnail view of the original website. Just a URL key and the HTML link to the website.

A Browser Icon if an Alias to the Application example Safari or Google Chrome or Firefox etc. What is appearing in your Screen Shot are Shortcuts to Bookmarks. What exactly do you mean by Browser Icon ?

Generating a .webloc for this post in AppleScript:

use framework "Foundation"
use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite or later
use scripting additions

property NSString : a reference to current application's NSString
property NSMutableDictionary : a reference to current application's NSMutableDictionary

set theURL to "https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252593405"
set webloc_path to "~/Desktop/Browser icons cannot be seen on desktop.webloc"
set webloc to (NSString's stringWithString:webloc_path)'s stringByStandardizingPath()

set dict to NSMutableDictionary's dictionaryWithCapacity:1
dict's setObject:theURL forKey:"URL"
dict's writeToFile:webloc atomically:1
return

VikingOSX is correct. WYSIWYG.