exactly
The only work around for it I found was changing the templates by adding the code in the first post. Again it still doesn't work for IE, but does for Mozilla and FF

For further reference: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

[QUOTE=xtremeoff-road]Are you sure about that?

I just placed my favicon in my forum's root and it does not do anything???[/QUOTE]

clear your history files, temp internet files, cookies, re-bookmark your page, lol. if none of those don't work, you didn't do it right.

All you need to do is overwrite the current Favicon.ico

If it doesn't work, just clear your cache and try again. Worked for me after I did that on my boards.

ok i had same problems using .gif so i changed it all too "favicon.ico" put it in root folder, closed my browser, cleared the cache and temp finternet files etc etc , reloaded and it worked great in FF

OFFICIALLY SPEAKING:
FAVICON

HTML Tag in HEAD Section:
To link your html or xhtml file to a favicon, there are some different approaches:

Standard: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
W3C Standard "best practised": <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
DepreciatedA.1:<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico" />A.3)
So it is best practise to use just 2 tags: (for "official" compliance)

<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>

for some custom templates, just replacing the default favicon doesn't do it and you gotta add the code to templates, like the header or forumhome etc.

It needs to be added to the Header Template in order to appear on all pages with FF. Just include the code at the very top

Thank you very much!!