website favicon not showing in Safari browser

This is a misunderstanding: I asked "no favicons in Safari 6" and then replied a few posts later "favicons in Safari6" as an answer what Glims does for you.

No there are no Tab favicons in Safari 6 and when you want them there are several methods to get them, but for me the easiest is Glims:

they are picked up from the websites, so if you reset webcontent it will have to re-address the website to show them.

Lex

Look in Safari Preferences when the webcontent is deleted, it may also be part of a cleaning operation.

Like I said, I will monitor it. But before I installed Glims (and now have favicons on tabs in Safari) the Web content never reset on its own, like it's doing now.

I'm looking in the Glims panel in Safari Preferences. What function would be toggled to cause the tabs to clear themselves at regular intervals? I can't find anything that seems to fit or be the cause, and again I am not resetting Web Content when this happens. If that were the case it would be normal.

Well it is not in the Gilms app. Did you by any chance install (or have installed) a non-standard pp to clean or set any OS setting like macpilot or so? Or do you clean caches (which you should not) ?

Nope. Before installing Glims tabs never "cleared" or reset themselves unless and until I did one of the two manual things mentioned above. I always empty my browser cache often, but that is about it. I'll just have to wait and see if this keeps recurring since I've only had it a few days.

>> When I click on a generic tab the page is blank and immediately reloads the page. So for some reason the pages are being "cleared" with the URL stored in memory, as if I had quit Safari Web Content in the Activity Monitor and forced it to

sounds as if web content crashed - does Console show anything ?

I honestly don't check console much regarding crashes. I opened it to see under the Crash Reporter and don't see a lot of recent dates for Safari.

If it is now crashing somehow without my knowledge it only started after installing Glims however. The app itself is not crashing.

clearing the safari caches does the same: it deletes the favicon that was on the website.

Wait, none of my pages/tabs went blank or forced reloaded simply by emptying the cache on Safari or any browser, ever.

I did not say that.

When you have another problem than the favicon thing, you may better start a new thread yourself: this one is marked as solved, so less people are going to read this.

Well since that is my issue it is obviously not about emptying the cache. The bottom line is there is something that is resetting them every so often since I installed Glims. It may be a conflict with another extension (like Tab Reloader or something) but it is still something that started after using Glims. I can try to disable it and see what happens.

As far as the thread being "solved", as I said many times before I'll just monitor it and see in the next few days. I was not trying to pursue this or keep the thread going. The reason why I posted here after it was solved in the first place is because it came up in search results as the problem I was having and I realized this same problem can still occur even if favicons are the right color bit (which was marked as the solution), as mine were. This was not about Glims, which you brought up. I felt it important and helpful for someone reading this to know another issue that was causing favicons in Safari only not to show on self-created Web pages, which was the part about adding the trailing question mark and numbers, which I finally read about elsewhere and I linked to. I never got an answer as to why that was an issue or what worked for me, but the whole Glims thing was more of a tangent.

Thanks anyway though.

Whatever you say. The OP marked the case as solved.

Older Safari: they had the Favicon, Safari 6 does not, so I used Glims to have them back.

Beautiful weather here, have a good day,

Lex

Safari 5.1 still has them in the address bar before the URL. My problem was not about the tabs but about the topic of this thread: favicons not showing in Safari for self-created websites even when showing in other browsers. That's why this thread showed up and I commented.

This is how I got mine to work:

1. Generated 16 x 16 .PNG from Photoshop (8 bits per channel RGB - no alpha) named "favicon.png"

2. Changed file extension to .ICO and put it in the same directory of my site that the index.html file is in.

3. Entered in the following code:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />

Worked in Firefox and Chrome, but not in Safari. Even after clearing chache.

4. Changed the name of the favicon (for example "awsomefavicon.ico") and adjusted the code.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="awesomefavicon.ico" />

Worked!🙂

Good to know Johnny. I got mine to work a couple months ago and so far so good. But yeah, Safari seems to be the browser that is most temperamental about displaying favicons (at least on amateur or self-created websites).

The numbers cause the browser to think that its a new version of the icon file and therefore reload it. Otherwise it will used a cached version and never reload the favicon. Safari does not remove cached favicons when you clear the cache. The other two ways of making safari reload the favicon is renaming the file on the server or closing Safari and remove the WebpageIcons.db file. It's in ~/Library/Safari. Just search for it if your on Windows.