About CNET TV

CNET TV is where you get your video fix on the coolest gadgets, the latest gear, and up-to-the-minute tech reviews and news. And the CNET TV blog provides you a behind-the-scenes look at our shows, personalities, and even upcoming site features.

Add this feed to your online news reader

  • prev
  • 1
  • next
Read all 'favicon' posts in CNET TV
April 29, 2008 11:58 AM PDT

Fix broken icons in Firefox bookmarks

by Tom Merritt
  • 1 comment
Share
(You can see this tip in action at CNET TV.)


Do your Firefox bookmark icons ever break? For instance, I have a bookmark to the CNET Intranet but the Last.FM logo is next to it. Not horrible, I know, but annoying.

Here's how to fix improper icons that, for one reason or another, may show up in the Firefox browser.

First you need to find the bookmarks.html folder for your Firefox.

In Windows XP for me, it's on a torturous thrill ride through the following folders: Documents and Settings - username - ApplicationData - Mozilla - Firefox - Profiles--a gobbledygook folder.

Make sure your browser is not running, then open the bookmarks.html folder in your favorite text editor.

My problems are in the Toolbar folder, so I find that section of the bookmarks.

I find the entry I'm looking for, in my case CNET Intranet, and find the term ICON with the = sign after it. The text after ICON is the offending image.

Highlight everything between the quotes and delete it.

Now save the bookmarks document.

When you relaunch the browser the offending icon should be gone.

To restore the proper icon, just click on the bookmark. The site should add it right back.

  • prev
  • 1
  • next
advertisement
Click Here
CNET TV Twitter Feeds

CNET TV topics

CNET TV bloggers

Brian Cooley
Molly Wood
Tom Merritt
Justin Eckhouse
Brian Tong

Get the CNET TV newsletter

Would you like a wrap-up of the week's hottest CNET TV videos delivered directly to your in-box? Then sign up for the weekly CNET TV newsletter, delivered every Friday.
Subscribe now!