Kilian Valkhof

Front-end developer, user experience designer & Jedi.

The case of the disappearing favicon

Javascript, 23 August 2010, 4 comments

Luckily, there is an easy fix: Just reset the favicon

Firefox has an annoying bug: If you set the window.location.hash, your favicon disappears. Very annoying. The bug has been open and confirmed for a long time, and Firefox 3.0 all the way to 3.6 are affected. But it hasn’t been fixed yet, so here’s how to fix it yourself.

Recent articles

F.lux for Ubuntu Linux, 26/07, 25

F.lux is a small but very useful application: It fades your screens to a warmer color temperature in the evening. This is pleasant for your eyes and won’t leave you wide awake at 2am because your computer monitors are so bright. There are mac and windows versions, but only a commandline app for Linux. Together with Michael Herf, the author of F.lux, I made a version for Ubuntu.

A web app in a weekend: Lystener.com Web, 28/06, 1

A week ago on Friday I woke up with a great idea for a web app. I wrote the entire idea down in a couple of minutes, tweeted about it… and went to my grandma to fix her computer and talk about politics.

Projects & Work

SenCSs

SenCSs supplies sensible styling for all repetetive parts of your CSS, allowing you to focus on actually developing your website's style.

Grafico

Grafico is an opiniated javascript SVG charting library with a wide array of graphs and a feature-full API.

Trimage

Trimage image compressor is a cross-platform GUI front-end to losslessy compress PNG and JPG images.

Lystener

Lystener shows you the lyrics you're listening to now and easily lets you share them on Twitter and Facebook by simply selecting them.