How to disable favicons in Firefox

Favicons are those little icons that usually are located next to the address bar on the right hand side of your Firefox webbrowser.

NOTE: Been tested and tried in Firefox 3.0.12 but should work in all different versions of Firefox.

Answer:

1. Open Firefox
2. In the address bar type in the following ‘about:config‘ and hit enter

   

3. Search for ‘browser.chrome‘ by using the filter option.

   

4. Now two options will appear ‘browser.chrome.favicons‘ and ‘browser.chrome.site_icons‘
5. Double click on each of these options to set them to false.

   

6. Restart Firefox and no favicon will appear again.