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I developed a website with a favicon and now every time I access localhost (for my other projects), I get that same favicon showing up. I'm on OSX, using Chrome. I tried clearing the cache; it flashed to the default unknown favicon first, then immediately grabbed the website one (that I don't want). Anyone know where to find that favicon so I can remove it? None of my other browsers have this problem (Firefox, Safari).

Hennes
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  • Are you using an actual release version of Chrome or some buggy testing alpha/beta/canary build? – Daniel Beck Nov 04 '11 at 16:33
  • Cannot reproduce. Visited `http://localhost` after setting up `/favicon.ico` on the site, it was displayed. Deleted favicon file, cleared cache and restarted Chrome: It's gone. – Daniel Beck Nov 04 '11 at 16:36
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    I am using an actual release of Chrome. Also- I deleted the entire project directory where that favicon is stored, cleared my cache in Chrome and restarted the browser and it still is showing up on localhost. Any other advice? – jfedick Nov 04 '11 at 17:32

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For Mac, delete: ${user.home}/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Favicons

For Windows: go to %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default and delete favicons and favicons-journal files

Source: http://www.nullalo.com/en/how-to-delete-google-chrome-favicon-cache/ [see #3 in the link]

I find this to be the least intrusive method since it does not delete your browser history or anything else as suggested in the other solutions.

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  • Great! You answer helped me to extract old favicon of some site from Chrome storage: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64263576/4928642. – Qwertiy Oct 08 '20 at 13:30
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To fix this, I went into Preferences, Under the Hood, Clear Browsing Data, and selected all the options with "from the beginning of time" as the date reference. I was hoping to not have to do this and lose all my browsing history/data, but it worked.

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You can of course always make an empty PNG file and set it as the favicon in an index.html page so the cache is overwritten:

<html><head><link rel='icon' type='image/png' href='favicon.png' /></head></html>

The default icon is still not there :( but it's a way to avoid deleting all your history.

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  • If you're a stickler meeseeks you can set it to a lookalike of the default: http://static.dealer.com/v8/global/images/site-favicon-default.ico – Samie Bencherif Jul 31 '17 at 08:46