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How to correct wrong favicons in Opera bookmarks & personal bar?

Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:56:29 AM

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Delete wrong icon file for sites in images directory in your profile and then reload those sites. You can set Read only attribute to icon files to prevent change.

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Steve DarkenDarken Friday, October 20, 2006 2:06:59 AM

Thanx for this tweak. I had not found before. smile

Unregistered user Saturday, October 21, 2006 6:50:24 AM

Anonymous writes: Perhaps they are working on this. Just have a look at the latest weekly build: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ "Fixed problem where pages showed the incorrect favicon"

Unregistered user Tuesday, December 19, 2006 2:26:06 PM

Anonymous writes: You can also manually set the icon, in case you have say two sites in the same domain(i.e. your site, and then the phpMyAdmin directory) by editing opera6.adr. #URL ID=46 NAME=Whatever you want it to be called URL=http://www.something.com/ VISITED=1166538128 ICONFILE=name.of.icon.in.images.dir.ico ON PERSONALBAR=YES PERSONALBAR_POS=0 The images directory and the opera6.adr is in the opera settings folder which is located somewhere in documents and settings on windows and ~your_home_directory/.opera for linux users.

greedz Monday, February 5, 2007 5:32:50 PM

nah, it's not fixed. using 9.10 and still have favicon problems sad

Unregistered user Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:05:33 PM

polocanada writes: You can use AM Deadlink software to re-download the icon and over-write.

djcondra Wednesday, October 8, 2008 10:53:47 PM

My personal bar is completely broken. (Opera-9.6 OSX-10.5)

Unregistered user Monday, March 23, 2009 3:11:11 PM

Mustafa Sazak writes: No matte' what I do, I cannot stop my icons disappearing. There only I see stars, sometimes blanks

Unregistered user Saturday, May 9, 2009 7:25:23 AM

o3 writes: Opera 9.64 has no such directory named "images" in Opera profile directory (User\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile). So, now what? My favicons are fubar.

Tamil Saturday, May 9, 2009 8:23:25 AM

Check User\Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile

Tamil Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:42:48 AM

Originally posted by arnymars:

How to assign an icon from Icons folder to a Bookmark or Bookmark Folder in Opera 10.50?

See http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmy.opera.com%2Fbulgaria%2Fblog%2Fshow.dml%2F3584872&sl=bg&tl=en

Originally posted by arnymars:

Can I add an extra Bookmark Folder icon in skin and refer to it - how?

Nope.

Originally posted by arnymars:

What's the name of current Bookmark Folder Icon - I can't find it in the skin file.

Folder = icons/folder_closed.png

Unregistered user Friday, March 26, 2010 11:41:30 AM

Anonym writes: If Opera doesn't show favicons at all, turn off Opera Turbo in preferences - then load the bookmarked pages... and the favicons are back at once. Just found it out by trial and error method. Chris

Unregistered user Monday, March 28, 2011 2:44:40 PM

Anonymous writes: I have similar problem with Opera 11.01 and have resolved this problem after deleting the following folder "C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Opera\Opera\icons" in my Win7 system.

NigelHughes Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:17:45 PM

In Opera 11 the bookmark icons can be customised by as shown in this forum: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1001702&t=1306448213&page=1#comment9507592

Unregistered user Thursday, September 22, 2011 1:43:58 PM

Anonymous writes: I have Opera 11.5 and I do not know how to correct or change the Bookmarks' FAVicons. I have three Bookmarks on my Bookmark Toolbar from Google: Gmail, GVoice, and GFinance. But those 3 facicons are the only 3 on my toolbar that fail to show up. I get the generic red favicon with the star. Is it possible to get these favicons to show? Thanks so much Wayne

Tamil Friday, September 23, 2011 9:07:57 AM

Try FaviconChanger extension.

Unregistered user Friday, September 23, 2011 2:24:56 PM

Anonymous writes: Great. Thanks so much, Tamil! Wayne

Unregistered user Monday, November 14, 2011 8:47:09 AM

Anonymous writes: All these years and favicons don't work. Simple really, use a decent browser..!

Unregistered user Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:21:15 AM

Ziggy writes: @Chris...Thanks, your suggestion worked a treat. This was driving me insane!

Unregistered user Sunday, November 25, 2012 1:00:30 PM

Anonymous writes: Thanks for the tip: I just TURNED OFF TURBO mode, and my FAVICONS then auto-loads/installs properly (in Opera 12.11) :)

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