A simple matter of…

For many, many months now my favicons have been corrupted - incorrect favicons stored against various bookmarks. And they keep changing.

So first off all I wrote some sed to remove this from bookmarks.html:

  sed -i 's/ ICON="[^"]*"//’ bookmarks.html

I started firefox and … the icons are still there!

So now I find that they _also store the favicons in places.sql (ever heard of the DRY principle guys?). So fire up “sqlitebrowser places.sqlite”, then goto the SQL tab and type in “delete from moz_favicon”, execute the query and resave the DB.

Finally, purged favicons. Now hopefully they won’t repopulate in a broken manner (fat chance).