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I have searched high and low for an answer to this! My website's icon shows in every other browser except for Safari.
I have "reset" Safari, tried a variety of different "paths" to my favicon.ico in my header.php file, blah blah blah and NOTHING works!
Can someone please help??
Thank you.
Hello,
Can you share the link of your website ?
I solved the problem! Here is what finally did the trick:
Favicon is not appearing in Safari:
If you have placed a favicon (the icon you see in the address bar and bookmarks) on your site and you can see it fine in Firefox but not Safari then it is likely that the icon file you are using is only 4bit (16 colors).
Open the favicon.ico file in an appropriate application, such as Graphics Converter, and resave it as an 8bit (256 color) file and re-upload to your site.
I forgot to say that the favicon needs to be uploaded to the public html area of your site, which I did via Control Panel.
PLEASE NOTE: I was having this same problem (my favicon.ico showing in all browsers but Safari) but I checked and it already was in 8-bit or higher color when exported by GraphicConverter as an .ico file, as the app automatically does that (at least current versions) when exporting as an .ico/favicon. Then I stumbled upon another discussion site that solved it for me and may be the key for someone else here too if they are in my boat.
For some strange reason you have to add
?23189123<link rel="shortcut icon" href=http://www.mywebsite/images/favicon.ico?23189123 type="image/x-icon"/>...or some random question mark/numbers for it to show in Safari. Anyone know why? Here is the link with more info.
It is not in the Safari anymore !?
There is a small extension that solves this and adds search egines, called Glims
Huh? Is what not in Safari anymore? And what is the "Glims" extension and what is it supposed to solve? Could you please elaborate?
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Oh okay, I researched Glims. It does seem like a full-featured tool. However, I don't think everyone should have to have a specific third-party extension to make their favicons show up in Safari, and of course most people won't have that one extension. Also, it adds favicons to the tab labels but they won't show up in the default area (the URL address bar) unless you follow the tips I gave.
Favicon on the tabs in Safari 6.
Safari 6 is only for Lion or Mountain Lion if I'm correct.
Older Safaris had it, if I remember correctly. Although unimportant, I missed the favicons and installed Glims. OS and Apps are getting flatter and flatter. No colors in Finder, and in iTunes...
Safari 5.1.9, the latest Snow Leopard-compatible version, still shows favicons in the address window right at the start of the URL itself.
Yes. But then the favicons should be there. And Glims works in Safari 5.1 and newer.
Yeah, I downloaded and started using it. Pretty cool plug-in, I must say (and it is a plug-in, not an extension, which explains why I couldn't find it when you first mentioned it). Love the tab control and bookmark options, etc. I have been using the Sessions extension to restore windows and tabs upon re-launching Safari and some other neat ones as well.
I haven't tried the bookmark customaization tool, but I wonder if it will let you place a bookmark "alias" folder, so that when you add, edit or delete a bookmark or folder in one place you don't have to find and update it everywhere it appears in your bookmarks. For instance, if you had an awesome gigapixel photo of London, you might want the bookmark to be both in a bookmarks folder for "Cities" under "Travel" and also one for "Gigapixel Photos" bookmarks under "Awesome Images", etc. I have needed that for a LONG TIME. Can't believe no one else has.
Hey Lex, I've been noticing since using Glims that after several hours or a day or whatever all the favicons on the open tabs revert back to generic ones again. 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.
Anyone else using Glims with Safari 5.1 notice this? Did you say in Safari 6 that favicons on tabs is built in already?
I said that there are NO favicons in Safari 6, and that I use Glims, because I don't like it too flat.
Glims can be used for Safari 5.1 and newer.
As soon as you reset Safari or just cookies and webcontent, the favicons are gone and Glims has to renew the favicons: it will show them again when you are reopening the respective sites (it picks them up there I suppose), when you click a tab where you were before it rereads the site. You can set the behaviour in Safari/Preferences/Privacy (Lion and Mountain Lion, I am not sure about Safari 5).
Lex
PS: I use Glims for adding some search engines and the tab favicons.
I said that there are NO favicons in Safari 6, and that I use Glims, because I don't like it too flat.
Huh? A few posts above you wrote "Favicon on the tabs in Safari 6." That's a phrase not a sentence, but I took that to mean that they are built in to the tabs on Safari 6. Are you now saying there are no favicons naturally in Safari 6 or that they are still in the address window right before the URL, as with Safari 5?
At any rate, my what I said was they were all reverting to generic anyway after a certain lapse in time, even when I don't remember resetting anything or quitting Safari Web Content in Activity Monitor. I will pay close attention in the next few days and see if this is indeed the case. Before installing Glims though, the only cases where tabs were cleared and then reloaded when I clicked on each tab was when I either answered the warning dialog that "Web pages are not responding" and asked to reload, or else when I manually quit Safari Web Content in the Mac Activity Monitor
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