Internet Explorer - favorites menu

[dirk digler]

I find with the upgrade from 7068 to 7077, my favorites bar often will have the icons for the different web pages to be an globe symbol for a second before it shows the website logos. Is anyone else having this issue? it is more of a bother than a show stopper, but one i want to go away FAST!

 

[Orbital Shark]

You could look at this thread

http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/6578-internet-history.html

It might be what you're after

 

[SoLoR]

Hm you are saying you are geting "generic" icon, instead of icon from web page?

 

[dirk digler]

yes exactly, but after probably less than a second, it goes back to normal, i will try to get a print screen of it. it is there long enough to aggravate, but not enough for me to format and do a fresh install to see if it goes away.

 

[z3r010]

This is what I always use to fix it - FavIconizer | Stefan's Tools

 

[dirk digler]

screenshot of what i am talking about

they all look like the bottom half for about a half second

 

[z3r010]

Oh thats odd

 

[Orbital Shark]

What are your internet settings showing? (e.g. Delete browsing history on exit).

I ask this as this will clear all browsing history including icons - Unless the 'Preserve favourites data' on the delete page is checked.

 

[dirk digler]

no, i dont have that. Should i try it?

 

[Orbital Shark]

It's worth a try, details in

http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/6578-internet-history.html

In order to restore the icons (if you need to) you will need to visit every site you have set as a favourite

 

[dirk digler]

i read your post fully and i dont have delete browsing history, but maybe i will clear it all out and see how that works for me.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Ok, that might do it.

Also, the 'Delete Browsing History' screen appears when you click 'Delete' in the 'Internet Settings' screen

 

[SoLoR]

Hm i had problem with favorites icons, till build 7068, but they fixed it in that build... hope they didnt come back in build 7077 :s waiting for x64 to see...

What i had was, compleatly randomly favorites icon cache got reseted, after i visited a page it was fine again for random amount of time, then it got reseted again... But like i said this was fixed for me in 7068.

 

[Orbital Shark]

I've not noticed it so far with 7077 so they could have addressed it

 

[dirk digler]

that didnt work, but i will live with the problem. thanks for everyone's concern.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Sorry to hear that, it might be fixed in the later releases (i've not seen it in 7077 so far).

 

[Orbital Shark]

OMG!! I've just noticed it happen 1 minute ago. Gonna have to look more in depth at this

Additional: Could this be because periodically IE is updating the icons the same as it checks for updates to websites? Think we need a guru on this 1.

 

[Orbital Shark]

I've looked into it a bit more & it always happens when I first open the Favorites menu after running IE. My new hypothosis is that IE is refreshing the icons based on the stored cache for Favorites data so this will not change. It's just IE keeping it's links up-to-date.

 

[dirk digler]

yes it did it to me on another computer so i guess that is just the way it is going to be.

 

[chev65]

Yes I noticed those little worlds also using X64 7077 but I always need to run faviconizer to get those favicons back anyway so it's a non issue for me. Once they were replaced with the favicon the little worlds didn't show up again. Still IE has problems showing certain favicons but most of them show up for me.