Favicon not loading in firefox

[Marx Cartoonee]

I'm not sure if this is the right board for this, so mods, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm having problems with my favicons, which won't load at all in Firefox. I've tried every other browser known to me (IE, Chrome, Opera, Safari) and they show up just fine. I've also asked several other people who use Firefox, and they said that they show up for them.
The next step was to clear all cookies, which didn't help.
I tried running it in safe mode with all addons disabled, but that didn't work either.
Then I tried a fresh install, but it didn't help either.
Then I checked if it was due to the host, so I switched from fileave to ripway, but the results were the same.

Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this problem, or better yet, how to fix it?

Oh, and just in case, here are the links to the favicons.
marxcartoonee.fileave.com/cc/favicon.ico
marxcartoonee.fileave.com/st/favicon.ico
marxcartoonee.fileave.com/gl/favicon.ico

h1.ripway.com/marxcartoonee/cc/favicon.ico
h1.ripway.com/marxcartoonee/st/favicon.ico
h1.ripway.com/marxcartoonee/gl/favicon.ico

They are being used (in the same order) on these forums.
cartooneecreations.proboards.com/index.cgi
samhain-tavern.proboards.com/index.cgi
gliesen-life.proboards.com/index.cgi

[Bennett 🚀]

<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="IMG" /> Is the code you should use

[Marx Cartoonee]

May 4, 2010 13:58:04 GMT -8 Bennett 🚀 said:

<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="IMG" /> Is the code you should use

The code is working just fine, but the files aren't displaying for me in firefox.

[Bennett 🚀]

They're appearing fine for me in FF.

[Charles Stover]

If it's a site where you have access to the root directory, just upload it to the root directory.
e.g. mysite.com/favicon.ico
That will show the favicon on all mysite.com pages (without the need for the <link> HTML).
For ProBoards, you don't have this ability.

As for your browser, odds are it's a cache issue. Browsers cache favicons because they are ridiculously small (bytes in size) used in every page load. Caching them makes it so that the browser doesn't have to connect to the host to retrieve that file every time you load a page. Firefox likely already has a cache version of that favicon, and thus isn't attempting to download a new one.
If I recall, Firefox doesn't clear it's favicon cache even if you use the Clear Cache feature (but that may have been a different browser). I had the problem once before, and I don't recall how I managed to get it to erase the favicon cache.

[Marx Cartoonee]

So I googled about the favicon cache and found a way to empty it using SQLite manager. However that didn't fix the problem either. So then I tried a webhost instead of the above mentioned filehosts, and now they appear just fine for me. Either my firefox doesn't like ripway and fileave, or they don't like my firefox. It's to remain a mystery.

Anyway, thanks to everyone for your help.

[Charles Stover]

Quite likely. If you put the URL in your browser, and it asks where you want to save the file, that's probably why Firefox wasn't displaying it. Whereas on said webhost, if you put the URL to the icon in your browser, it probably displays as an image.
When hosts display the "save as" box instead of displaying the icon as an image, it's because they're sending a separate content-type heading (saying it's something other than an icon). I forget what it is off hand, but it's labelled something generic like "applet/stream." Firefox probably receives this header, believes it's not an icon file, and thus ignores it.