Jonathan Eicher Reporter
	Description • 23 years ago

Excerpt from
http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci213741,00.html :

A favicon (for "favorite icon") is a customized image that Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5.0 (and above) uses, if it is available, as an icon to go with a
user-specified bookmarked site on the Links bar at the top of a Web browser
window. In Windows 98, a user can add visible links to favorite Web sites simply
by dragging with the mouse the Uniform Resource Locator (address) of the Web
site to the optional Links bar near the top of the window. Beginning with
Internet Explorer 5.0, if a Web site has made available a small image of a
specified size, the browser will download it and put it next to the text for the
favorite link on the Links bar. The favorite icon image must use the standard
name of favicon.ico. If no favicon.ico has been provided, a default image (a
logo for Internet Explorer) is used instead. 

Excerpt from http://www.favicon.com/ :

In Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0 and above and Linux's Konqueror Web Browser
you can customize the Icon next to your bookmarked web site to be your own
customized logo.  Hence, when people look at their bookmarks they will be drawn
to your web page because of the beautiful logo next to your bookmark.  In prior
versions of IE, the only logo looked like: . Currently, favicons are not
utilized by Netscape. Favicons also can appear in other locations, such as the
address bar, depending on the particular browser.

	Olav Vitters
	Comment 1 • 23 years ago

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32087 ***

	timeless
	Comment 2 • 23 years ago

vrfy dupe