I recently updated Chrome to v54.0.2840.71m on Windows 7. After the update I lost all of the favicons on my bookmarks bar and in my bookmarks folders (bookmarks for several hundred sites). Even if I click on a link on the bookmarks bar the associated favicon is not restored . Is there any quick way of restoring them? (and by quick I mean by not having to re-visit several hundred websites!)
Google-chrome – Lost all favicons in Chrome bookmarks bar after update
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Right click the bookmarks bar, select Always show bookmarks bar on a New Tab.
It does show favicons, but if you've imported bookmarks, you may indeed need to access the sites for them to load. You could right click your bookmarks bar and select open all bookmarks. After this they should be retained.
When you add your bookmark, remove the name. This will display the favicon only. I expected a tooltip, but looking now, there may not be one. If it already exists, right click and choose Edit..., then remove the name.
I'm not aware if this is possible.
It's pretty simple to customize your app tab favicons.
Because the app tab favicon is generated by the bookmark just...
(1) install this -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-favicon-changer/
(2) view your bookmarks, right click and select the custom image you want
(3) restart browser (for new image to "take")
Done.
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Ok, now that I'm logged in as me (those previous two comments from "user659393" were me as well), and now that I have my favicons working again...
Since the problem appeared to be connected to my Chrome user profile on this computer, and as my Chrome profile is linked to my Google account (where all the info is synced in Google's cloud), I opted for the "reload" option.
With Chrome running, I changed to a different Chrome user profile account, and made sure all other Chrome windows were closed. Then opened the Chrome settings, went to the "People" section, selected the broken user account, and clicked "Remove...".
After that account was off of this computer, I added a person back in (I opted to use the same name and icon), and switched the browser to that user. At that point, I had a basically "blank" account. Going back to settings, I connected to my Google account (option at the top of the settings menu).
Once connected, all the bookmarks and extensions re-load, and the bookmarks all have the favicons again.
Best I can tell, the Chrome user profile became corrupt. Restoring from the cloud (if you are setup to have your Chrome profile connected to a Google account) is a quick way to fix things. It is also a great way to sync bookmarks and settings between multiple computers; this profile is shared between three computers this way... works great.
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