Favicon vs. Homescreen/Touch icon

plebivac

For some reason the homescreen/touch icon is showing as a favicon in many browsers. Even though I have a separate favicon set..

When I'm in the admin pages it shows the correct favicon, but if viewing the main page or any forum pages it shows the hscreen/touch icon as the favicon in the browser tab.

Any way to fix this? I would like to continue to use the different icons separately. AKA I don't want to delete the site icon just to use the correct favicon.

Any else have this issue?

julian

Can you copy and paste the contents of <head> in the resulting HTML? I want to see if the favicon and brand icon are both linked... in which case it's really the browser that's determining which asset to show $:\$

plebivac

Yeah:

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So even on the "view source page" it shows the correct favicon, just like on the admin pages. But on the forum main pages it shows the app icon instead.

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julian

Hahahah... for what it's worth, DDG shows the right icon?

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julian

@plebivac Sadly some bad news --

favicon.ico is largely deprecated but is still supported
Browsers will actively use <link rel="icon"> if found, superceding favicon.ico, this is why the wrong favicon is seen in browser
There is no way to specifically serve one icon for the browser and one icon for mobile devices, at least on Android.
There is the apple-touch-icon, but in NodeBB, we just lump it along with the "home screen icon" setting.

So I think you're going to want to just upload the same image to both fields $:\$