I want the website icon, not the Firefox icon on my desktop.

When I create a shortcut on my desktop I get the Firefox icon, not the website icon, which is the icon I want for easy and quick identification. How can I EASILY get rid of the Firefox icon and replace it with the website icon?

Please do not dig up old threads about this issue.
You have read that Firefox doesn't do that and that you need to change the icon of the default browser that such a link gets to the website's favicon yourself if you are not satisfied with the default icon. You have to change the icon via the Properties of the shortcut. You can usually save the favicon via the "Firefox/Tools > Page Info > Media" window.
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I cant get firefox to put a website icon onto my desktop with out it going to generic

i cant get firefox to put a website icon onto my desktop with out it going to generic

Me, too!
My desktop is covered with Firefox logos.
If Microsoft can handle it, then so should Firefox.
Since I drag the website logo, on to the desktop, why does it 'convert' to Firefox?

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When I drag and drop a website onto my desktop, how can I make Firefox use the icon native to that website instead of the default firefox icon?
I have even gone painstakingly (SEVERAL TIMES) to the sites with IE, dragged the site onto my desktop in order to obtain the site native icons for my desktop (and deleted the ones with the Firefox icon) .... but they all soon revert to the default Firefox icon.
E X T R E M E L Y F R U S T R A T I N G !!!!!!!!!

I don't want icons from the Firefox library.
I want the icon that comes from the website I'm making the shortcut for.
(If you go to a site in IE you will see the site generated icon at the left end of the URL in the address field.)
If I make IE my default browser I am able to get (and keep) those icons as shortcuts on my desktop without a problem.
I want to keep Firefox as my default browser.
So I want to know how to make Firefox accept the icon that comes from the website like IE does.
I have even gone to the trouble to use IE to create the shortcuts with the site specific icons.....but after I do that...... FIREFOX CONVERTS THEM TO THE FIREFOX DEFAULT ICON as soon as I re-boot or refresh my desktop.
I generally prefer Firefox as a browser....but If there's no fix.....I'm going to dump Firefox.

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Create a new profile exclusively for the 4.0 beta version and create a desktop shortcut with -P "profile" appended to the target to launch that profile.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_pre-release_versions
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Shortcut_to_a_specific_profile
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_multiple_profiles_-_Firefox

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Since Firefox updated it checks add-ons every time I open Firefox. The Firefox homepage then opens along with my home page, two tabs. I want the checking to stop. This has not happened before--only with this update.

This question was reposted and replied to here: 
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/878953
... so I'll lock this thread.

I do not want the Firefox update page to load. I want only the Home page to load.

When i first access the internet through Firefox, I get both the Firefox update page and my
requested Home page. I am unable to only get the Homepage even though this is the
setting in my control panel.
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[[Firefox says it's just updated every time it starts - how to fix]]

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When I click on a link in Thunderbird to open a web page, and Firefox is not already open, I want to have the user profile screen presented so that I can select which profile to use for the Firefox session. Instead, it opens the last used profile. Is there a way to do this?

That is is always a problem when you are using multiple profiles and Firefox isn't running.
It might work if no profile is selected (i.e. marked as Default=1 in profiles.ini). 
You can use desktop shortcut that open with a specific profile (-P "profile"). 
There is also a setting in the Profile Manager (Don't ask at startup).

I can't get rid of the I-play start up page after doing what oberon instructions, I want the firefox Google page as defalt

I was trying to download a reader for a windows application. Hidden in the download was the I-play junk (I am not a game person). I went to the I-play site and got their instructions and completed them, but the I-play page keeps coming up when I sign on to Firefox. I want the regular Google Firefox start up page as the default.

If the page appears in a tab when first starting Firefox
*Have you tried to reset your home page? Firefox allows multiple home pages separated by the "|" keyboard character
*See --> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page
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#**http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.url
#**http://www.techrena.net/computers/address-bar-search-provider-firefox/

Two things came with my Firefox when I downloaded it. Speed Dial and Xmarks. When I start the program it locks up and I have to just shut it down. How can I delete them? I only want the Firefox.

When I downloaded Firefox I had two things download with it. Speed Dial and Xmarks. I don't know about either and don't want them. I cannot delete them alone it seems. When it all loads it locks my computer up totally. I cannot x out of anything. Just kind of "thunks" with a dead sound. My facebook applications runs better on Firefox but I can't seem to get it downloaded alone. What am I doing wrong? I do not want the speed dial for sure. Don't know about the Xmarks.

Where did you download Firefox from?
The official Firefox download doesn't come with either of those addons.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
or
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

I am in Portugal but I want the Firefox front page in English. How do I change it to English?

The front page of Firefox is always presented in the Portuguese language. I am an English man and speak no Poruguese. I have tried to changeit to Englosh but nothing seems to work. I tried downloading the English version of Firefox but it was still in Portuguese.

Some sites automatically redirect you to a site in the local language, based on where your IP locates you. 
There is usually a link on such websites choose a language or go to an international version that allows to chose the language. 
.... 
If the Google (Firefox) or Yahoo! home page is in the wrong language then see:
* Google: http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=873
* Yahoo!: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/homepage/homepage/basics/troubleshoot-02.html
Such settings are stored in a cookie on your computer that you need to allow: Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Exceptions" or Tools > Page Info > Permissions.

Website will not accept Firefox 4; also,can't tell whether any connection is encrypted--how do I get back to earlier versions( my 3.6 file is corrupted)?

I bank by the internet. I upgraded to Firefox 4.0, and my bank indicates it does not accept this version of Firefox. Also, I was using 4.0 to order some products over the internet, and noticed that the "padlock" indicating a secure(encrypted) connection is not present on the 4.0 version--so I did not complete my order.
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In Firefox 4 you no longer have the Status bar that showed the padlock in previous Firefox versions.
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A click on the "More Information" button will show details about the connection. 
The background color of the "Site Identity Button" on the left end of the location bar will change color (blue or green) and show the domain in case of a secure https connection.
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With Firefox 3.16 I could logIn to corporate website - why not with Firefox 5.0?

I am a Real Estate agent. With the earlier version of Firefox I was using (I think it was 3.16) , I was able to successfully 'log-in' to my company's national web site (http://www.21online.com/public/login ).
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If I click on a text file hyperlink, I want a download dialog, not for firefox to try to open it ( 20MB).

When I click on a hyperlink to a large text file, how can I change FireFox's default behavior to open a "File-Save" dialog box directly?
Instead FireFox tries to open the file and for very large text files, 25MB or more, which is excruciatingly slow. I use a program to process these files in seconds, if only I could download them.
Thanks - Ed

Press and hold down the Alt key while you left-click the link to get the download dialog.

MOZILLA NEW, I WANT TO MOVE ICONS AROUND ON DESKTOP

used to be able to move desktop icons, for programs, around on the desktop. HOW to move them now?

Just in case you are blocked from your desktop by Firefox's display mode:
* You can switch out of full screen mode using the F11 function key. (This key toggle full screen mode on and off.)
* If the minimize, restore/maximize, and close buttons are not visible on the title bar, you could try pressing Alt+spacebar to use the control menu for the window.

Sounds simple...Maybe it is. I want only one icon on my desktop..

All I want is the "Computer" icon on my destop. Finder refuses to allow me to put one there. Is there any way around this seemingly unnecessary block?

You can have whatever you want on your Desktop. Go to Finder prefs and turn off everything you don't want to see on your Desktop. Now put an alias for anything you do want. I have aliases to the startup drive, my data drive, my Panther drive (still lots of stuff there I want to consult regularly) and my home folder. I do not see the iBook's backup drive nor the original drive with 10.1.5 and a lot of old stuff. One bonus is that you can arrange them however you want and they STAY that way.
If you want to access Computer from the Desktop you don't need an icon at all. In Finder prefs select New Finder windows: Computer. Then just click on the Finder icon in the Dock and it opens Computer. That's how I get to the volumes I don't keep on the Desktop on those rare occasions I want something on them.
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I'm note a firefox geek, but ever since my friend told me to install NoScript I can not access my msn and hotmail page. It tells me that Java Script is required, what ever that is. What do I do next. Do I uninstall the No Script. Thanks Ed

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You are on Windows 2000, you do not have a "Firefox" button, and should consider yourself to be fortunate in that you still have menus and don't have to do anything to get the menus back instead of the "Firefox" button. (The same applies to Windows XP users).
Use the "File" menu to get to Import. You are not on Windows 7 or Vista, and don't have to put up with the nonsense added for Aero.
If you want the "Firefox" button you can get it with View -> toolbars -> (uncheck) Menu Bar. The menu bar and the "Firefox" button were supposed to be mutually exclusive (which is impossible in some cases without being incompatible).
Once you are using the "Firefox" button ...
Use the "Alt" key to view the menu bar (temporarily) containing File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools, and Help. On Windows 7 and Vista, the menu bar was hidden by default in Firefox 4 and above. These menu items are more or less available under the "Firefox" button which has the most used of the built-in Firefox menu items available in a different format.
To get back to having menus again. "Firefox" button -> Options (second column) -> (check) Menu Bar
You can make '''Firefox 7.0.1''' look like Firefox 3.6.*, see numbered '''items 1-10''' in the following topic [http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox-problems.htm#fx4interface Fix Firefox 4.0 toolbar user interface, problems (Make Firefox 4.0 thru 8.0, look like 3.6)]. ''Whether or not you make changes, you should be aware of what has changed and what you have to do to use changed or missing features.''
* http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox-problems.htm#fx4interface

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