IdentFavIcon - Firefox Extension

IdentFavIcon is a Mozilla Firefox extension based on the idea of Don Park to generate visually pleasing and easily recognizable icons from identifiers, such as IP addresses. I have used his algorithm to create this extension, which replaces the default favicon for web pages without one. The extension uses the CRC-32 code of the web page's domain name to seed the identicon renderer.

You can install the extension (version 0.3.4.7) by clicking here or from the Mozilla add-ons page. The source of IdentFavIcon is hosted at github.com, feel free to contribute.

• Added Turkish locale + updated version compatibility

• Fixed usage of deprecated API document.baseURIObject

• Added Polish and Spanish locale + updated version compatibility

• Added Portugese locale + fixed version numbering to support update checks

• Added German, French, Japanese, Serbian, Swedish, and Chinese translation + updated Firefox compatibility to 4.0

• Updated to be compatible with Firefox 4.0b9

• Hotfix release
• Fixed broken behavior for background loading of multiple tabs
• More swastikas avoided

• Fixed behavior for sites with favicons which are not 16x16 pixels
• Added button to clear generated favicons (go to Tools/Add-ons/Identfavicon Preferences, Clear Generated Icons button)

• Version 0.2.2 has a serious bug in it, please upgrade!
• Now can set site preferences: enforce/forbid identfavicon generation for certain sites (to override automatic behavior)
• Added preferences panel to hide context menu item and add site preferences
• Thrown away code that was responsible for inifitely looping web requests on some sites
• Completely replaced valid favicon recognition code
• Swastika avoidance :-)
• Firefox 3.7a1pre compatibility

• Firefox 3.6a1pre compatibility
• "Reload Page Favicon" context menu item to enforce favicon reload (after network outage, for example)

• Firefox 3.5 beta compatibility
• Fixed favicon update when navigating back and forth in page history
• Fixed favicon generation for a couple of sites

• Firefox 3.1 beta compatibility
• Transparent favicon backgrounds

Send feedback, comments, requests to dhanak (at) gmail (dot) com. Please include IdentFavIcon in the subject line.

David Hanak