Disable favicon support in Firefox
April 3rd, 2007 - Firefox, How to, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks
Tim Russell writes in with this tip: “If there’s one thing I hate about your website and most other sites out there it’s the accompanying favicon’s that litter my browser tabs and bookmarks menu. Surely I’m not the only one that dislikes this so called feature, so if you want to turn off favicons this is all you have to do…” We generally like favicon’s but to each his own, continue on for the simple instructions on how to disable them.
Disable favicon support in Firefox
- In the address bar, type
about:config - Type “icon” in the search filter on the top
- Change browser.chrome.favicons to false by double clicking on it
- Change browser.chrome.site_icons to false by double clicking on it
- Restart Firefox
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Thanks for the tip Tim!
Posted by: David Mendez

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