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i have a favorite icon defined for my web-site:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico">
Any browser that has visted the site after i added the icon can display the favicon fine. But my own browser refuses to show the icon.
i've tried every variation of the link i can think of:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico">
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico">
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico">
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico">
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="renamed.ico">
It doesn't matter, Internet Explorer (9) refuses to even try to do a fetch from the server (monitoring from fiddler).
i've tried clearing my cache, many times:
(gear) -> Internet Options -> General -> Delete -> Temporary Internet Files
Alex in this answer believes that favorite icons are cached differently than regular web-content, and don't don't follow regular clearing rules.
So the question becomes: How do i clear the Internet Explorer favorite icon cache?