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arizona480
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Bookmark Icon Trick (I think).

I noticed this a while back when U.S. Airways and America West merged. The new website had the U.S. Airways logo icon, but since I originally moved (drag/drop)the website into the bookmark toolbar, it kept the America West Icon which I like better.

There was a text messaging site that no longer seems to message my cell phone anymore, so I found the link on T-Mobile to send messages to my phone. I wanted to keep the icon used with the original messaging service since I already had a T-Mobile icon on the bookmark to the link to my account and the icon for the messaging website had a more appropriate icon for text messaging. I noticed that if you just change the link address through "properties" it will keep the old icon even though the new website has it's own.

Is this just a glitch in my firefox (2.0 now .12) or can the rest of you do this? Also, is there a way to attach any icon to a site you want to a bookmark?

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Favicon Picker2

"is there a way to attach any icon to a site you want to a bookmark?"

Get the "Favicon Picker2" AddOn:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3176

btw, it's not a glich in your FF.
FF does not usually update it's bookmark icons.

Tim

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but

I guess you could find the file they are stored (not bookmarks.html) in and delete it forcing FF to reload them...?

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Bookmark icons...

The icons are stored (in Hexadecimal) in the link that is stored in the bookmarks file.

arizona480
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Cool Extension, Thanks!!!

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