Favicon

Also known as shortcut icon, Web site icon, URL icon, bookmark icon, favorite icon, favicon.ico

thumb|280px|Wikipedia's favicon, shown in [[Firefox]] A favicon (; short for favorite icon), also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, tab icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more small icons associated with a particular website or web page. A web designer can create such an icon and upload it to a website (or web page) by several means, and graphical web browsers will then make use of it. Browsers that provide favicon support typically display a page's favicon in the browser's address bar (sometimes in the history as well) and next to the page's name in a list of