Remove default favicon on localhost

Question

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).

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 17 '17 at 22:44

For 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: http://www.nullalo.com/en/how-to-delete-google-chrome-favicon-cache/ [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.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 05 '11 at 20:42

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.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 25 '13 at 07:48

You 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.

Remove default favicon on localhost

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