Firefox 2: Disable Favicons

Contributed by MickeyMouse March 27, 2007  
Tagged: Mozilla Firefox

If you are like me, you think favicons are ugly. If you use FF2, you can turn them off in a snap. Follow these directions for disabling favicons in firefox.

Favicons destroy the look of my bookmarks in firefox. I don’t like them.

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Directions to Turn Favicons Off:

1. Load Firefox 2
2. In the address box type about:config
3. In the filter box type icon
4. Set browser.chrome.favicons to False
5. Set browser.chrome.site_icons to False
6. Quit and Restart the Browser