Favicons are a known longtime bug unfortunately :-/ Recently I had a week long hard struggle with them too, and now have a very long macro again that I was temped to post as "Jumping Favicons" - because they just seem do the opposite of what they're told, when changing them manually it gets 100x times worse instead of better!
What *often* seems to help is to force-reload a page, perhaps you've tried that already? (Right-click on Reload-Button)
A few notes to my messy macro, not for you Tim, but if anyone from the KM folks may be able to make any sense of it: When I had some domains set to manual favicons, those icons usually only showed in the the other 3 places, but not in tabs bar. Tabs bar still showed their "normal" icons, e.g. youtube. Except from one domain, one actually worked - but which one was pure luck, and the lucky domain changed sometimes! The weirdest thing was: if I force-reloaded *ONE* of the tabs, ALL the other icons in tabs bar changed too! If lucky, each to their own -manually set- favicons, if bad luck to that of their neighbors!! At some point I had the impression that this happens mostly when there was a tab that couldn't be loaded, and showed page load error. Then -whoosh- when force-reloading any one tab ALL favicons of all tabs jumped just une step forward! That really looked funny, LOL! I've meanwhile learned that the "onLoad" function isn't triggered when a tab shows "page load error", perhaps that's somehow related, somehow confusing a counter or such?? But I could never reproduce anything in a reliable constant way.
@Tim:
I hardly dare to mention such an embarassing way, but if you really use only the same set of favicons, the most complicated and bothersome, but 100% reliable way would be to build a skin toolbar with those icons. To put links on those buttons would be a snap with a macro, but putting the button-images together would be hard work for *you* and guess the icons need converting so I'm afraid they may look ugly afterwards
To see what I mean, open your skin folder, and look at e.g. bookmarks.bmp as example. In the past there was only the "magic pink" background what made the icons transparent, but looks like today there are more advanced formats working too. I know nothing about those, but there are some experts here who can tell more, from what I read it's a bit tricky. In KM1.6alpha is one of those modern skins included, AuraAlpha.
By the way the icons in a given toolbar must all have the same size, which one is free, just all the same. And they will show only in exactly this size in the skin.
The other (equally NON-perfect) way, would be to use buttons simply with numbers, like in my toolbar for hotlinks. That's in the icons-skins section in this forum.
But in the end all this embarassing struggle and frustration wouldn't be needed at all if only the favicons were not so unreliable in KM :-(
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/10/2010 06:52PM by siria.