Firefox: Wrong bookmark icon

For a while now, I’ve had one bookmark in my list of favorites that had the wrong icon. The site the bookmark was for did not have a favicon so it should have just had a blank page icon next to it. Instead, it was showing the Fark icon. It’s a minor issue but it bugged me every time I opened my bookmarks.

The answers I found almost always involved installing an extension or deleting and recreating the bookmark. Instead of doing that, I decided to look at the bookmarks.html file. That is where I found the answer to removing the icon.

The steps are fairly simple:

Open the directory containing the Firefox profile. Open bookmarks.html with a text editor. Find the line starting with <DT> that contains the link to the site. Delete the ICON href tag

<a href=”….” icon=”123″> would become <a href=”….”>

Save the file and start (or restart) Firefox.

If you want to disable bookmark icons all together, check out the instructions here.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. – Golda Meir

02.Nov.07 Browsers