I am using Google Chrome 62.0.3202.75 on Windows 7 64 Bit OS. For some reasons I had to do a clean reinstall of the Windows 7. I had however taken backup of important settings and files from the System drive including the Bookmarks file of Google Chrome.
Then I also installed Google Chrome (From the web) and restored the Bookmarks file.
Now all my bookmarks are back in the same order they earlier were on the bookmarks bar. There's one small problem though. The icons are missing from them. All it shows is a white rectangle as icon. See the attached screenshot. I tried accessing the respective websites by clicking on the bookmarks bar and restart chrome but it did not help.
I want to avoid accessing each and every site again and adding it to Bookmarks bar again.
Is there any shorter way to get back the icons on the bookmarks bar?
Thanks.
Best Answer
The only way I have found to get the icons to show up is to visit the site via the bookmark. You don't need to remove and re-add the bookmark, just click it and wait a few seconds for it to load and the icon shows up again. Typically, I will visit all the sites directly in the bookmarks toolbar (where the icons are always visible) but leave the ones in the folders until I actually need to visit them.
This behavior exists in Firefox as well.
Update:
After a little searching, I found a Chrome extension called Bookmark Favicon Changer which can batch process the bookmark icons. In my brief tests, it was able to successfully change about 80% of my icon-less bookmarks (they were all old ones, so not all the sites may have been active anymore) but it only detected that it had changed the icon about 10% of the time (basically it would change it but then give a warning Cannot confirm changing of bookmark favicon at ...). It was slow, but the advantage is that it was completely automated once you had started the process.