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I was having a problem with my favicon previously, (here is my old favicon http://imgur.com/a/cATBc) (if you cant see it, it is a tiny blue dot in the corner of the screen)

But now, whenever I enter even a snippet of my old code, it immediately goes back to that favicon, even though I deleted all traces of it from my computer and GitHub.
My new favicon is a pug face.

Edit: ANY new website I make now has the old favicon.
Any help?

NEW EDIT: my website files are here: https://github.com/Pugplays42/htmlstuff

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  • Is it possible that GitHub still has the old favicon cached and is therefore still using that? Maybe you need to wait for some amount of time. – Tim Biegeleisen Mar 23 '17 at 00:45
  • It's been a day – Chj Johnson Mar 24 '17 at 00:17
  • Looking at https://github.com/Pugplays42/htmlstuff/blob/f0034b326a01392341f6eddf2132618d4164c97e/index.html#L6, did you try to reference the icon as a file (as in https://github.com/audreyr/favicon-cheat-sheet) instead of an embedded content? – VonC Mar 24 '17 at 05:34

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Check out the favicon-cheat-sheet from Audrey Roy Greenfeld.
Especially the "Forcing a Favicon Refresh" section:

  • Clear the browser cache on Windows (Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R) and on Mac (Command + Shift + R).

  • Also close and reopen browser if IE.
    If still stuck, try opening new tab. Or see this question

  • Temporarily add explicit HTML markup and append a query string. Remove this when you're done:

    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico?v=2" />
    <link rel="icon" sizes="16x16 32x32" href="/favicon.ico?v=2">

For large versioned deployments, if all site visitors need their favicon force-refreshed in an extreme situation:

  • Add explicit HTML markup (customize the sizes part) and put your version number in the filename.
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon-v2.ico" />
    <link rel="icon" sizes="16x16 32x32" href="/favicon-v2.ico">
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