Where Does the word 'favicon' Come From?

[Captured Enigma]

It's such a small image in the url bar, why does it have such a fancy name? haha 🙂 Why not just call it URL image or URL icon 🙂

what does it actually mean and why is it called favicon?

 

[Cosmic]

Favicon, as I understand it, is a portmanteau (or combining of two words) of the words "favorite" and "icon." So, instead of calling it a favorite icon, we just call it a favicon. Probably a convenience, so that the file name could just be favicon.ico instead of favoriteicon.ico.

 

[pandaa]

Yup! I believe bookmarks are/were called favorites in some browsers, so it makes a little more sense in that context. 🙂

 

[crumblepie]

🙂 I used to save all my bookmarks as favicons in my firefox browser. So I'd be seeing the icons of all my favorite sites on the top all the time.

 

[Pvcomputers]

Far as I know favicons is short for Favorite Icon which is displayed on your bookmarks if it works in your browser in the first place.