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My favicon will not show up. I have searched the site for similar questions and I do not see where I am going wrong. Here is my tag:

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

Do you see anything wrong here? I have my favicon.ico in the correct directory. I am testing this locally in incognito via google chrome.

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I looked at this one... still no go. – 40Alpha Dec 24 '12 at 22:10
Have you tried different browsers? Are you sure the file is the correct format? It's not corrupt somehow? webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/21193/1243 – w3d Dec 24 '12 at 23:10
Have you tried directly browsing to the favicon? Something like: mysite.com/favicon.ico – Mike Chess Dec 25 '12 at 1:02
A lot of times it's just caching problem, be aware of it. – Huckleberry Finn Dec 26 '12 at 23:21

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load faveicon.ico url directly using firefox, will show you if there is problem, for example not loading or wrong image type is that.

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corrupted file... thanks – 40Alpha Dec 28 '12 at 17:00
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If you are using the tag, then try giving the path to a jpeg/png file. Even that renders properly as a favicon.

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