Not showing the favicon icon in chrome

Question

I had inserted the tag:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="Survey2016/favicon.ico"/>

This shows the icon in the Firefox browser, but it is not showing the in Chrome.

This is my tag:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>

Possible duplicate of [HTML favicon wont show on google chrome](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13780402/html-favicon-wont-show-on-google-chrome) — Jacques Marais, Dec 11 '15 at 08:10
I have included your tag into the question and improved the format. You can still make your own changes uses the edit button. — Martin Evans, Dec 11 '15 at 08:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '15 at 08:16

Best practice is to just store the favicon in the root directory – or at least make it accessible there (through a URL rewrite f.e.).

You already did that, so you could remove the tag altogether. This is why you'd do that, you save a line of HTML.

With favorite icons, caching is a big problem. Sometimes opening the favicon directly (by typing /favicon.ico in the address bar) and then hard reloading (Shift+F5 or Shift+Click Reload) helps.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 11 '15 at 08:18

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You might be having an old version of chrome which do not support favicon hosted on you local computer. Please host that image to an internet server and use it from that hosting website, that might help you.

answered Dec 11 '15 at 08:18

shishir

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