Favicons: I Need To Find The File Path

Callender said:

At the moment I'm using Firefox on a different machine and if I drag and drop a bookmark I get the same blank icon. One thought springs to mind. Maybe using an old version of FF temporarily will give different results. I'll try an old portable version when I'm at home.

The last time I got the favicons correctly when saving a web page to the desktop (just before I used TFC), I had the latest Firefox 37.0.1. I had a stroke of luck, at least with the bookmarks. Yesterday I restored the book marks using the 'Restore' option which restored from the exported .json file. Today I restored them once again using the 'Import Bookmarks from HTML' option which used the exported HTML file. This over wrote everything and restored all the favicons in all the bookmarks!

Melita, It sounds from your most recent post #31 that you're okay now?

Well that's great. I can't get it to work. The only way I've found is to create the bookmark using IE and set FF as default browser.

I am also having trouble here. I cannot separate the text in to paragraphs. I type them separately but the text comes together into one paragraph when the post is saved, as you can see below. Editing does not help.

Anak said:

Melita, It sounds from your most recent post #31 that you're okay now?

Not really. Even before the re-install of Firefox I had no trouble with Bookmarks. Something went wrong in restoring with the .json file but I rectified it by restoring again using the saved HTML file. At the time Firefox was un-installed only the new web pages I was saving were not getting the correct favicon. Web pages saved before this problem, retained all their respective favicons, everywhere in the computer. After I re-installed Firefox I lost all those old favicons everywhere in the computer, Desk top, Libraries Folders etc. All of them changed as shown in my post #27 (bookmarks are now OK). This morning they changed once again! I did a re-start of Firefox and all the favicons changed once again to the blank white one shown in post #27. Regards,

On another note: It might be worth reading this article on how to set FF to autosave bookmark backups on exit:

[Tip] Enable Automatic Bookmarks Backup in Mozilla Firefox at Exit - AskVG

Doesn't solve the problem but at least you'll always have a backup available.

Melita said:

I am also having trouble here. I cannot separate the text in to paragraphs. I type them separately but the text comes together into one paragraph when the post is saved, as you can see below. Editing does not help.

Anak said:

Melita, It sounds from your most recent post #31 that you're okay now?

Not really. Even before the re-install of Firefox I had no trouble with Bookmarks. Something went wrong in restoring with the .json file but I rectified it by restoring again using the saved HTML file. At the time Firefox was un-installed only the new web pages I was saving were not getting the correct favicon. Web pages saved before this problem, retained all their respective favicons, everywhere in the computer. After I re-installed Firefox I lost all those old favicons everywhere in the computer, Desk top, Libraries Folders etc. All of them changed as shown in my post #27 (bookmarks are now OK). This morning they changed once again! I did a re-start of Firefox and all the favicons changed once again to the blank white one shown in post #27. Regards,

My first thought is a virus or rogue toolbar.

• Maybe I missed it, but have you ran any virus scans, what do you use? You don't show anything in your system specs.

• What prompted you to run TFC?

I'm going to need a day maybe tonight to digest what's going on here, while I'm gone re-run what you have for virus, and malware, when done I'd like you to do a CHKDSK and after that a SFC /scannow. Report any results.

I also need you to upload a troubleshoot report from Firefox.

• Go to Help on the FF menu bar, click to open.

• About half way down you'll see Troubleshooting Information, click on that.

• Click on Copy Text to Clipboard, open Notepad, Paste and Save.

• Upload in your next reply.

I will not be available at my computer for the next 4 to 5 months. I have to pursue this problem when I get back. Please tell me whether I post here in this thread when I return or do I start a new thread? Thank you for all the help so far. I owe you an explanation. Please see my private message.

Kind regards,

Callender said:

On another note: It might be worth reading this article on how to set FF to autosave bookmark backups on exit:
[Tip] Enable Automatic Bookmarks Backup in Mozilla Firefox at Exit - AskVG
Doesn't solve the problem but at least you'll always have a backup available.

This is a great tweak. Thank you! Please see my private message.

Kind regards,

This thread will always be here, you may see a notice like this:


But disregard it. You are picking up where you left off, and your explanation in post #37 is enough reason to place this discussion on hold.

You're welcome you have been a great student, I'll read your PM now.

Hello Anak

I am back and a surprise was waiting for me. I got back the favicons! How, I am unable to even guess.

Here are the details for your analysis:

On the day before going on my holiday in April, I tried again to get back the favicons and failed. After my return, before getting back here, I opened my Hotmail. As an afterthought, I dragged the web page to the desktop and there it was, the Microsoft favicon! I got them all back but I had to do some tweaking.

Out of the two dozen web short cuts I have on my desktop:

About a third that I dragged in again (while their blank icons still remained on my desktop), came with the favicon. When I tried to rename any of these for convenience (as I usually do), the favicon vanished and the same blank white post card like icon returned. I got the favicon back when I renamed about three times at random. Some, I had to rename with the first word of the real name of the web page before I could get the favicon back - like the word 'Windows' of this page I am using now. Actually, the first part of the first word, just 'Win' was enough.

Another third came without the favicon as before. When I renamed the icon, the favicon came back as if by magic!

The remaining third came with the favicon and retained the favicon even when I renamed it.

Couple of web pages did not have a favicon and those took up Firefox emblem (the browser I use). See attachment.

Now, the situation is the same as before I had this problem. All web pages come with the favicon and stay that way regardless of what I do with their names.

The computer was used by others, sparingly, for four months during my absence - for e-mail and web browsing on a mild scale. None of them mess with the settings, system or do any other tweaking.

I didn't have to anything suggested in post #36.

My Desktop looks beautiful now.

Kind regards,