Another favicon not working in IE...

Question

Hi, I've read through and tried all the favicon fixes already posted. Including:

1. Refreshing the cache
2. Using a different favicon that works on other websites
3. Using a favicon generating website
4. Using a Photoshop favicon plugin
5. Using an absolute path
6. Using a relative path

It works fine in all the other browsers. I'm using IE8 in Vista via Parallels on a Mac.

It's on a Moodle website and I have not altered the default Moodle code for the favicon:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo $CFG->themewww .'/'. current_theme() ?>/favicon.ico" />

The site is here: http://www.olvarwood.com.au/olvarwoodonline/

Favicon path is here: http://www.olvarwood.com.au/olvarwoodonline/theme/olvar-wood/favicon.ico

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It works on my IE7. So it must be specific to IE8. The only thing I could suggest testing is to add:

type="image/x-icon"

in your link favicon element.

Answer 2

I'm in the exact same boat. Gone through all the help available, remade the icon many times and still not displaying in IE tabs or the titlebar on my system (IE 8, Windows 7). It is, however, displaying in IE on other systems, for instance my girlfriend's Windows XP laptop with IE 7 and in my favorites list.

Your favicon is showing up fine for me in IE 8 btw.

Answer 3

favicons are funny things. I believe they may be cached differently to normal web content.

This may be because browsers (as well as other things) often request favicon.ico for every site they go to.

I've had favicons not working, and then miraculously appear several hours later.

Sorry if this isn't much help, but try waiting it out :)