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I have a basic site without favicon. Why does Firefox request it?

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I have a basic site without favicon. Why does Firefox always try to get it? Apache logs "GET /favicon.ico" every time i call that site with Firefox. This does not occur with Internet Explorer for example.

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Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I have a basic site without favicon. Why does Firefox always try to get it? Apache logs "GET /favicon.ico" every time i call that site with Firefox. This does not occur with Internet Explorer for example. == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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It always has since the Netscape days.