Prevent Firefox From Saving Favicons?


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I'm wondering how I could stop Firefox from saving favicons into the bookmarks.html file. I remember seeing the solution somewhere before, but I just cant find it anymore. So, help? Thanks.

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Found this link for you. How can I disallow favicons in bookmarks Lots of good info in that thread.

Some quotes.

Favicons can take up to 80% of the file size of your bookmarks.html file.

Use the Favicon Picker extension to remove existing favicons from your bookmarks.html file:

Favicon Picker 0.3.0 extension

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=321562

or

Favicon Picker 2 0.3.3

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3176/

To stop new ones from being added:

type about:config in the URL bar and hit Enter

Pref Name = browser.chrome.favicons - set to false

I've disabled all Firefox favicon capability by adding the following to to my User.js file.

Code:

// Disable Bookmark Icons

user_pref("browser.chrome.site_icons", false);

user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons", false);

I believe you can also add these via about:config.

Note that these lines disable favicons entirely. Favicons won't be added to your bookmarks file anymore, but they won't appear anywhere else, either. I'm fine with that, but others might not be.

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