Fix broken icons in Firefox bookmarks
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.
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I tried your trick of using notepad to edit the bookmarks file, but cannot find the links anywhere in the text.
The reason that I have two is that the one cloned itself one time when I tried to replace it with a new bookmark using the target website.
So they're like toolbar herpes. They're not fatal, but they're really annoying, I can't get rid of them, and if I'm not careful, they'll spread.