Favicons and Chrome

[Mulreay]

OK just a quick one, I changed the favicon for my website to a personalised one and no matter how many times I restart chrome the favicon is still the old one. On IE and FF it has changed straight away. I tried clearing the cache on Chrome with no joy. Any ideas what this could be?
Using chrome 6.0.472.63

Thanks in advance

[quaxo]

Funny, I've heard of this issue a lot with Firefox, but not with Chrome.

Anyway, try these in this order:

1. Delete any bookmarks in Chrome to the site.
2. Clear your browsing and download history.
3. Restart Chrome.
4. Visited the site and bookmarked it again.

Another solution I just found involved deleting the file that stores those icons for Chrome, forcing Chrome to create it again with updated icons, but this will delete ALL favicons, not just your site's.

Anyway, hope that helps out a bit, Mulreay. Let us know how you get on.

EDIT
I assume this site you're referring to is that Space and Science site in your signature (which I'm looking forward to digging through eventually). I'm attaching the favicon as I see it now.

[recovering disk space - old attachment deleted by admin]

[patio]

Chrome is not all its cracked up to be....buggy at best.

[CBMatt]

As quaxo suggested, you can try deleting the Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Thumbnails file, but the problem may lie with your HTML, as Chrome uses favicons a bit differently.  In your HTML, you have the following line:

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<link href="/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />
Underneath that, try adding this line as well:

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<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="/favicon.ico" />
OR

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<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="http://spaceandscience.co.uk/favicon.ico" />
Very similar, I know, but it sometimes makes a difference.

[Mulreay]

Thanks for the replies guys. Quick run down of what I did/happened.
I tried deleting all the bookmarks pertaining to my website and then cleared the history/cache etc re-added the bookmarks but to no avail it still remained at the old favicon.
I then removed the bookmarks again and tried deleting all history using Ccleaner and this had the same result.
So I tried un-installing Chrome and re-installing whilst removing all history and settings, this returned the same result as the favicon was still the old one.
The HTML issue that CBMatt suggested was interesting but I used FTP to add the favicon so was not sure where to start with that.
I then looked at this folder option that quaxo mentioned (thanks for that) and used the directions that CBMatt included to find the correct file (Thanks for that), and removed the thumbnail file.
I then restarted chrome and guess what all the favicons were blank, so whilst holding my breath I typed in my URL and BINGO the new favicon was there. I then just ran through some of my other bookmarks and they were all added correctly.

Thanks a lot for the help guys

[quaxo]

Good to hear, Mulreay.