Clear all favicons from Firefox 3

Oct 22, '08 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: dangil

If you want to clear all favicons from your bookmarks in Firefox 3, edit the places.sqlite database, which can be found in your profile folder, located in your user's Library » Application Support » Firefox » Profiles » random_text.default folder. You then need to use any SQLite editor to execute these two commands on that file:

delete all from moz_favicons
update moz_places set favicon_id = NULL
Quit the editor and restart Firefox, and the favicons will be gone (this works on every platform). Also, if you want to permanently disable favicons, type about:config in the URL bar, and edit these two properties: [robg adds: You can use the built-in sqlite3 program in Terminal to edit this file. Just cd into the profile folder, then (with Firefox not running) type sqlite3 places.sqlite. I had to change the format of the first command, however, to make it work in sqlite3 -- I had to remove all, leaving just delete from moz_favicons. After running both commands, type .quit and restart Firefox. This seemed to work for me as described in the hint.]

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