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Overview

Firefox can be quite obstinate when it comes to clearing favourite (aka. shortcut) web site icons from it's cache.

This short article wil outline the steps for clearing favourite icons in Firefox, based on the original article Clearing All Favicons From Firefox 3 Cache by Rich Menga.

Steps

1/ Install Firefox add-on SQLite Manager

2/ Select Firefox favourites database "places.sqlite"

3/ Review matching favourite web site icons (eg. "permeance")

eg.

SELECT * FROM  "main"."moz_favicons" where url like '%permeance%';

4/ Delete matching favourite web site icons (eg. "permeance")

eg.

DELETE FROM  "main"."moz_favicons" where url like '%permeance%';

References

• Clearing All Favicons From Firefox 3 Cache