I developed a website with a favicon and now every time I access localhost (for my other projects), I get that same favicon showing up. I'm on OSX, using Chrome. I tried clearing the cache; it flashed to the default unknown favicon first, then immediately grabbed the website one (that I don't want). Anyone know where to find that favicon so I can remove it? None of my other browsers have this problem (Firefox, Safari).
3 Answers
To fix this, I went into Preferences, Under the Hood, Clear Browsing Data, and selected all the options with "from the beginning of time" as the date reference. I was hoping to not have to do this and lose all my browsing history/data, but it worked.
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For me it was specifically the "Browsing history" option that did it.– meetarMay 23, 2017 at 15:35
For Mac, delete: ${user.home}/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Favicons
For Windows: go to %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
and delete favicons
and favicons-journal
files
Source: http://www.nullalo.com/en/how-to-delete-google-chrome-favicon-cache/ [see #3 in the link]
I find this to be the least intrusive method since it does not delete your browser history or anything else as suggested in the other solutions.
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Great! You answer helped me to extract old favicon of some site from Chrome storage: stackoverflow.com/a/64263576/4928642.– QwertiyOct 8, 2020 at 13:30
You can of course always make an empty PNG file and set it as the favicon in an index.html
page so the cache is overwritten:
<html><head><link rel='icon' type='image/png' href='favicon.png' /></head></html>
The default icon is still not there :( but it's a way to avoid deleting all your history.
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If you're a stickler meeseeks you can set it to a lookalike of the default: static.dealer.com/v8/global/images/site-favicon-default.ico Jul 31, 2017 at 8:46
http://localhost
after setting up/favicon.ico
on the site, it was displayed. Deleted favicon file, cleared cache and restarted Chrome: It's gone.