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My ff icons are missing, for example

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My ff icons are missing after formatting hdd and reinstalling, for example home is only in text, no icon, how do I turn it back to an icon

My ff icons are missing after formatting hdd and reinstalling, for example home is only in text, no icon, how do I turn it back to an icon

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Are you referring to the favicons on the Bookmarks Toolbar?

Do you have any extensions installed that may suppress those icons?

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window or otherwise make changes.
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Firefox Menu > View > Toolbar > Customize
At the bottom > Show > Choose - ICON > DONE

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Can you attach a screenshot?

Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot.


Make sure that you haven't enabled a High Contrast theme in the Windows/Mac Accessibility settings.

Make sure that you allow pages to choose their own colors in Firefox.

  • Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"

If images are missing then check that you aren't blocking images from some domains.

  • Check the permissions for the domain in the current tab in "Tools > Page Info > Permissions"
  • Check that images are enabled: Tools > Options > Content: [X] Load images automatically
  • Check the exceptions in "Tools > Options > Content: Load Images > Exceptions"
  • Check the "Tools > Page Info > Media" tab for blocked images (scroll through all the images with the cursor Down key).

If an image in the list is grayed and there is a check-mark in the box "Block Images from..." then remove that mark to unblock the images from that domain.

Make sure that you do not block third-party images, the permissions.default.image pref should be 1.

There are also extensions like Adblock Plus (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) and security software (firewall, anti-virus) that can block images and other content.

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here is a screenshot, you can see, no icons, just text where there used to be icons

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Asịsa Ahọpụtara

Are you referring to the favicons on the Bookmarks Toolbar?

Do you have any extensions installed that may suppress those icons?

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window or otherwise make changes.
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Thanks, it was some old extension that was labeled as disabled but in fact wasn't.

Thanks again, case closed