Proper name of a tiny logo?

[FearlessWeeder]

I generally use the firefox browser.

Up in the address bar to the left of a site's url is a space where a tiny blank piece of paper with its upper right had corner dog-eared/crimped appears for most sites. Sometimes, as is the case with this site, I see a small (presumably customized) icon to the left of the url. Here it appears to be the vB logo. They're all about the size of smilies. When I bookmark a site, either the tiny little default blank page logo appears or a custom tiny little logo appears. The customized little icons make it really easy for me to spot the few favorite sites I visit. Presumably they make it easier for others to readily spot a favorite site in their bookmarks too.

What is the proper name for that tiny logo that appears in the address bar please?

[ReCom]

Umm .. favorite icon? since the file is normally named favicon.ico ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

[Spank]

There's also a nifty tutorial article on how to do your own.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=13119

[FearlessWeeder]

Thank you very much ReCom. I didn't find that information searching for tiny + icon or little + icon.

A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon and install it into a website (or webpage) by several means, and most graphical web browsers will then make use of it. Browsers that provide favicon support typically display a page's favicon in the browser's URL bar and next to the page's name in a list of bookmarks. Browsers that support a tabbed document interface typically show a page's favicon next to the page's title. The Microsoft Windows Shell uses favicons to represent "Internet shortcuts" to web pages.

editing to add- thank you very much spank! That may be helpful someday.

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Oops, just tried to click on your link on how to do one and it's not valid. Would you please try to post the link again spank?

I think I just found a thread that contains the link to the how to if anyone is interested-
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hlight=favicon

Here's another thread that discusses adding favicons-
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hlight=favicon

And this really helped me understand what was going on-
http://www.favicon.cc/

[Spank]

This was the link I meant to post

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131191

[FearlessWeeder]

Hi Spank, all taken care of now and we have one. Thank you very much.