Firefox Favorites Icons?

[M8RIX]

I recently installed Firefox browser just to see what all the hype was
about. As far as I can tell, I can see no great advantage of one over the
other. I still prefer IE.
There is one feature I like in Firefox that I like and that is in the
favorites folder (bookmarks in Firefox). When I installed Firefox I migrated
my favorites from IE to Firefox. I was surprised to see that all of the
icons were unique to the sites that I had bookmarked. In IE all of the icons
are the generic blue "e"
Is there a way to get IE to use the icons provided by the sites I bookmark,
or is this a feature unique to Firefox?
TIA for any input here.
Mark N.

 

[Jon Kennedy]

FavOrg
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,6679,00.asp

If you don't subscribe to PCMag's downloads, you can also get it here:
Version 1.4 here:

http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/internet/favorg.zip

or Version 1.2 here:

http://www.liemar.com.br/construindoseusite/downloads/favorg.zip

More info on favicons here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.asp
http://www.favicon.com/index.jsp?id=Internet+Explorer

 

[Chad Harris]

To save a favicon or to exchange an icon for the 2000 plus native to Win XP,
included in downloaded programs, and zip files for programs, you need to do
two things if you do this manually. If you don't the favicon or the icon
you subbed for the boring explorer "e" is going to go away after you reboot
or clear Temp Int Files.

With favicons, go to the url the favicon came from and add /favicon.ico to
the url.
You should be able to drag this favicon but if you can't then pull the small
"e" from the upper left corner name bar several times like a suspender strap
and then drag it to the desktop.

1) Change the name of the favicon.
2) Put it in a folder you can call anything including "Happy Trail Icons."
3) If you want to exchange any shortcut icon for a favicon, then rt. click
desktop>porperties>change icons and browse any folders to change to that
particular icon. This includes System 32, Program Files, Download Files and
Zip files. You can also exchange the shortcut icon with the icons you
accumulate in the save icons folder referenced above as the "Happy Trail
Icon" folder.

Best,

Chad Harris
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[M8RIX]

Thanks for the info Chad.
The tips you provided do indeed do the trick, but the process seems like
alot of work for something that is automatic in the Firefox browser. You
would think that the authors of web sites would want their icons to affix
themselves to the favorites list automatically like they do in Firefox.
Furthermore, you would think that IE would have a simplified method for
utilizing the icons that the web authors intended, for those who like to use
them.
Thanx again............MARK N.

 

[C A Upsdell]

Thanks for the info Chad.
The tips you provided do indeed do the trick, but the process seems like
alot of work for something that is automatic in the Firefox browser. You
would think that the authors of web sites would want their icons to affix
themselves to the favorites list automatically like they do in Firefox.
Furthermore, you would think that IE would have a simplified method for
utilizing the icons that the web authors intended, for those who like to use
them.

I suspect that Firefox is superior in this simply because it was
developed from an active process of browser improvements, whereas IE6
has stood still, except for security updates, since XP first appeared.
I would not be surprised if Microsoft fixed this little irritant in IE7.