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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 18, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-experts-help-me-why-doesnt-my-favicon-ico-display-in-tabs/285304 "2005-01-18T03:34:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:**  [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-experts-help-me-why-doesnt-my-favicon-ico-display-in-tabs/285304/1 "2005-01-18T03:34:13Z")
Google has the G, Wikipedia has the W…
I’m a developer for [this site](http://www.legendasdivx.com) and I’ve been trying to set up an icon to be displayed in bookmarks and tabs, like in the above sites. I put the favicon.ico in the root of the website and in the bookmarks I started seeing it, but not on the browser’s tabs (i’m using firefox). I then added this line to the header:
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**Author:**  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-experts-help-me-why-doesnt-my-favicon-ico-display-in-tabs/285304/2 "2005-01-18T03:53:22Z")
I cannot find it in the W3C web standards.
You can see it in IE because IE does not support web standards as well as Mozzie or Firefox.
FWIW, put in the code for IE users just to make them happy.
😃
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**Author:**  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-experts-help-me-why-doesnt-my-favicon-ico-display-in-tabs/285304/3 "2005-01-18T04:13:48Z")
Your coding looks ok, and it is coming up fine for me.
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**Author:**  [@leenmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leenmi)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-experts-help-me-why-doesnt-my-favicon-ico-display-in-tabs/285304/4 "2005-01-18T04:33:16Z")
Firefox on Linux. I can see the icon in the tab.
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**Author:**  [@Joe\_Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Random)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-experts-help-me-why-doesnt-my-favicon-ico-display-in-tabs/285304/5 "2005-01-18T04:41:31Z")
> [@leenmi](#):
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> Firefox on Linux. I can see the icon in the tab.
Firefox on Windows. I can see the icon, as well.
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**Author:**  [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-experts-help-me-why-doesnt-my-favicon-ico-display-in-tabs/285304/6 "2005-01-18T10:47:40Z")
Really? OK I’ll just stop worrying then… But damn it still doesn’t show in my browser.
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**Author:**  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-experts-help-me-why-doesnt-my-favicon-ico-display-in-tabs/285304/7 "2005-01-18T10:58:49Z")
FireFox on Mac OSX: fine here.
Safari on Mac OSX: icon displays in the address bar; not designed to appear in tabs anyway.
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**Author:**  [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-experts-help-me-why-doesnt-my-favicon-ico-display-in-tabs/285304/8 "2005-01-18T11:11:34Z")
Ah I just needed to clear my cache! Works fine now.