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Everytime I update/migrate Firefox to the next version I loose some of the icons for saved bookmarks.

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I am using Windows 7 Ultimate on a Dell latitude 830 with Firefox 38.0.5. When I update/migrate to a new version of Firefox I loose some of the saved bookmark icons. I know that if I visit each of the bookmarks missing their icon I will most often get the bookmark icon back similar to the icon which appears on the tab for the bookmarked site/page. However this is not always the case. As an example i use "https://www.northcountry.org/home/home" as a bank site which does not display an icon on its tab. In the past I was able to use a logo image (see attached) and insert/attach it to the bookmark. The last few updates to Firefox this has not been possible. As of this writing I have several books with a empty box in front of the bookmark tittle. It would be so simple to copy the logo file and paste it to the bookmark with a right click or add a feature to the bookmark file to use a specific icon just like those on my desktop.

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate on a Dell latitude 830 with Firefox 38.0.5. When I update/migrate to a new version of Firefox I loose some of the saved bookmark icons. I know that if I visit each of the bookmarks missing their icon I will most often get the bookmark icon back similar to the icon which appears on the tab for the bookmarked site/page. However this is not always the case. As an example i use "https://www.northcountry.org/home/home" as a bank site which does not display an icon on its tab. In the past I was able to use a logo image (see attached) and insert/attach it to the bookmark. The last few updates to Firefox this has not been possible. As of this writing I have several books with a empty box in front of the bookmark tittle. It would be so simple to copy the logo file and paste it to the bookmark with a right click or add a feature to the bookmark file to use a specific icon just like those on my desktop.
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See if this helps;

Firefox Not Loading Bookmark Icons: Causes and Fixes http://www.brighthub.com/internet/google/articles/90229.aspx

Fix broken icons in Firefox bookmarks http://www.cnet.com/news/fix-broken-icons-in-firefox-bookmarks/#!

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The website specifies a favicon in the page source, but this icon and others that use the same folder do not exist on the server (404 error).

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="../images/favicon.ico">

There used to be extensions that can set a custom icon as the favicon, but those extensions haven't been maintained for quite a few years. There is only an extension that can reload a favicon, but that won't help here.

I'm not sure how you got this favicon previously.

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The first solution does not work in firefox 38.0. The second solution only works if the target website has a icon.

The third solution tells me that there is no current solution???