Since favicon has been introduced by Microsoft,
browsers
have implemented it. The issue is that it is using the well-known
location anti-pattern. So each time you are accessing a Web page for
the first time such as http://example.org, the browser will make two
HTTP requests:
http://example.org/
http://example.org/favicon.ico
You could set up a server and look at the results in your logs
127.0.0.1 - - [15/Feb/2011 20:28:25] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [15/Feb/2011 20:28:25] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
There is a proper way to add a favicon to your site.
<link rel="icon"
type="image/png"
href="/somewhere/myicon.png" />
I was curious if there was a way to remove the request of the favicon.
Browser config file Property Value
- Opera 11 opera:config MultimediaAlwaysloadfavicon 0
- Firefox 4 about:config browser.chrome.favicons false
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browser configuration against favicons download
ps: if you know for other browsers, leave a comment.