How do I retrieve lost Bookmark icons most of which disappeared when I updated to Firefox 8?
After I updated to Firefox 8 I noticed that more than half of the itemsin my bookmarks list had lost their icons which were replaced by a dotted line in the shape of a square. I tried to go back to using Firefox 7 using System Restore. The restore was successful except that Firefox could not be opened. So I undid the restore and this allows Firefox to open and all seems ok apart from the fact that the majority of the items in my Bookmark list have disappeared and have been replaced as described. Can anybody help?
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Try to restore them with this extension:
Sorry co-rel, but I had no joy with CheckPlaces. I have also noticed that, when I go to a Bookmark site, favicons are also missing from the address bar.
CheckPlaces fixed this problem for me. Thanks!
A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
Thank you so much for this addon link! It took about 10 minutes to run all the checks, but all my icons are back...some are still absent, but others are visible that I don't even think I had before! Unless they all go away on a reboot, I am happy now~ Thanks again.
Hi everyone. At issue is that FF8, obviously due to a coding bug, no longer is retrieving the favicon from the root of a website's www directory website in some situations. I tried starting FF8 with all add-ons disabled, just to verify that an add-on wasn't causing the issue. The add-on Check Places will restore the missing favicons, but the favicon will disappear as soon as you visit the bookmarked URL if the favicon was missing after you upgraded to FF8.
Hehe. I am not too thrilled with Mozilla's new rapid development cycle. FF8 is simply a tweaked version of FF7 and as such it should have been a 7X upgrade. But I guess Mozilla wants Firefox to get up to version 10000 before Chrome does. Silly.