Website desktop shortcut icons appear as blank white

My desktop shortcuts are plain white and do not show the correct icon which most websites provide. The shortcuts have been produced by dragging the (typical) Globe icon from the address bar whilst using Firefox.
Icons produced the same way whilst using IE do show the icons correctly.
I have tried the following:
Ensure that FireFox is the default browser.
Right click shortcut and try "Change Icon" but the only icons listed are generic MS ones.
Delete iconcache.db
FireFox / Options / Content / Advanced / Allow pages to choose their own fonts YES
Reset FireFox to default, and then checked all of the above again.
Changed screen resolution from default then back to default.
Re-named GDIPFONTCACHEV1.DAT which was automatically replaced by iconcache.db by the system.
OS is MS Windows 7 Professional.
Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Inbetween each check I have closed FireFox, re-booted and re-opened FireFox.

''cor-el [[#answer-672616|said]]''
<blockquote>
You can check for issues with the Windows icon cache and try to rebuild the icon cache.
# Open the Task Manager (Shift+Ctrl+ESC)
# In the Process tab, right-click on the Explorer.exe process and select End Process.
# Open the file picker via "File > New Task (Run)" and click the Browse button.
# Type or Paste %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local (%LocalAppData%) in the File name field (AppData is a hidden folder).
# Select the IconCache.db file and use "Delete" in the right-click context menu to delete the file.
# After the IconCache.db file has been deleted, start a new explorer.exe process via "File > New Task" to get the desktop and Taskbar back.
The IconCache.db file is a hidden file, so make sure that you can see hidden files.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
</blockquote>
Thank you cor-el. I have tried what you have suggested, and also tried re-naming another file in the same directory GDFONTCACHE1.DAT which I beleive has a similar function, but none of these combinations will produce an Internet shortcut icon.

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