I developed a website with a favicon and now every time I access localhost (for my other projects), I get that same favicon showing up. I'm on OSX, using Chrome. I tried clearing the cache; it flashed to the default unknown favicon first, then immediately grabbed the website one (that I don't want). Anyone know where to find that favicon so I can remove it? None of my other browsers have this problem (Firefox, Safari).
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To fix this, I went into Preferences, Under the Hood, Clear Browsing Data, and selected all the options with "from the beginning of time" as the date reference. I was hoping to not have to do this and lose all my browsing history/data, but it worked.
1For Mac, delete: ${user.home}/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Favicons
For Windows: go to %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default and delete favicons and favicons-journal files
Source: [see #3 in the link]
I find this to be the least intrusive method since it does not delete your browser history or anything else as suggested in the other solutions.
1You can of course always make an empty PNG file and set it as the favicon in an index.html page so the cache is overwritten:
<html><head><link rel='icon' type='image/png' href='favicon.png' /></head></html>The default icon is still not there :( but it's a way to avoid deleting all your history.
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