1230945 - cannot force an update of favicon

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 418144

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Peter Möller]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 2015103000

Steps to reproduce:

- call a website, look at the favicon in the tab
- change the favicon with ftp
- reload the page => no change
- shift reload the page => no change
- inspecting the icon in the media info => its actual
- reload again => no change
- close all tabs of this page
- open new tab and return the the site => no change



Expected results:

I got no idea, how to force an update
Meanwhile I use chrome, this guy will update immediately, but its not where i wanted to end with ;-)

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

It seems like there would already be a bug report for the favicon not updating automatically, but I can't find it. Not being able to reload the favicon manually is bug 418144.

Comment 2

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

Hi, 

I found 2 bugs relate: bug 333516 and 664756 somebody with more experience on this problem please take a look.
Thank you

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

it's possible to clear the favicons from the Browser Console, otherwise they usually expire after 7 days.