In both cases, a browser restart is suggested. Before you try any of the other fixes below, the first thing you should do is ensure that the main service responsible for updating your Google Chrome browser (Google Update Service update) is enabled and permitted to be called into action when needed. on Windows: delete Favicons-journal and Favicons files from the following locationĬ:\Users\nomeutente\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default.$/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Favicons Favicon cache resetĪ more drastic way to solve the problem, but that allows you to do it globally rather than site-by-site, is to clear the browser’s favicon cache. For the more experienced, by clicking the right mouse button on the page and selecting “View source” option you can search for the exact reference to the favicon. Favicon reloadĪnother method is to load the favicon directly from the website (normally visiting refresh it by hitting F5 or CTRL+F5 and restarting your browser.
Once the chrome dev tools are open, right-click the refresh button in. Or open the Chrome Dev Tools by pressing Ctrl + Shift + I on your keyboard or right-click anywhere on the page and select Inspect. Or press Ctrl + Fn + F5 on your keyboard. If you are not, try to close the tab, restart your browser and reload the page in a new tab. Press the Ctrl key on your keyboard while clicking the Reload button in Chrome. At this point, if you’re lucky, the icon in the navigation tab should be the correct one. Cache refreshĪ first attempt you can do is open the affected site and force a cache refresh by hitting CTRL+F5. When Google Chrome bookmarks show the wrong icon (what is commonly called favicon), because the website has changed its design in the meantime, or because maybe you are building your own website locally and you have changed the graphics, there are several approaches that you can follow to ensure that your favorite browser shows the updated icons.