The following table illustrates the image file format support for the favicon.

Firefox and Safari will use the favicon that comes last.

The red W favicon Wired.com uses would be perfect for the recent stories.

This table illustrates the different ways the favicon can be recognized by the web browser.

It also shows the favicon and a refresh button.

This side effect no longer works, as all modern browsers support the favicon without bookmarking.

Another example is for the popular favicon icon.

These applications can be started by using mostly a desktop icon using the favicon.

Freedom of information request reveals cash-strapped body's spending on website - including £585 for a tiny favicon.

Visual tabs use an image thumbnail rather than the default favicon and description.

The favicon displayed defaults to a newspaper icon.

Each bookmark in the list is displayed in a single row with the favicon icon and page title.

It uses the favicon for the icon but otherwise it just launches the regular browser.

A side effect was that the number of visitors who have bookmarked the page could be estimated by the requests of the favicon.

At the same time, Google changed the site's logo and favicon, from black to a red one, matching the colour of the coral notification icon.

A favicon is small image (known as an icon) that is used to identify a website or webpage.

He submitted it for a contest launched by Google in June 2008 to receive favicon submissions.

Referring to the purple peace sign he created that serves as craigslist's symbol and favicon:

They just keep getting smaller and smaller until they have no label or even a Favicon, rubbish!!!

Private browsing tabs are marked with a special privacy favicon that makes it possible to tell them apart from regular tabs.

Originally, the favicon was a file called placed in the root directory (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico) of a web site.

The favicon (short for "favorites icon") introduced by Internet Explorer is now also supported and extended in other browsers.

Chrome for Windows will use the favicon that comes first if it is 16x16, otherwise the ICO.

Opera Software added the ability to change the favicon in the Speed Dial in Opera 10.

If none of the aforementioned options are available, both Chromes will use whichever favicon comes first, exactly the opposite of Firefox and Safari.