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replacing icons on shortcuts

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Anonymous
on March 15th 2009

Each of the sites bookmarked on my Mozilla has a unique icon, however, when I place a shortcut for that site/link on my desktop, I see only Mozilla icons. I would like to use the site's icon on my Desktop, as well, for quick identification.

Any clues?

Thanks!

Vlasta
on March 16th 2009

If you are having problems with the icons, you can try the online shortcut maker, but first you'll have to download the icon from th site.

Anonymous
on March 19th 2009

Thanks! I hate to seem totally inept, but how do I "download the icon from the site"?

Vlasta
on March 19th 2009

Usually, the icon is named favicon.ico, so type in the address bar of you web browser the address of the site followed by favicon.ico and then download it. For this site, you would use http://www.rw-designer.com/favicon.ico

Anonymous
on March 24th 2009

Thanks for the favicon.ico hint. That works well on most of the links I needed!

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