I cannot seem to get the favicon working in internet explorer. It seems to work fine in firefox, but in internet explorer it is not displaying. I have uploaded the favicon using the browse button in the theme setup and told it to use the default drupal favicon just to test with. It shows up in firefox but not ie. Any ideas?

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doublejosh CreditAttribution: doublejosh commented

IE does not allow favicons that are gifs. The Drupal system allows you to upload a gif if that's all you have.
To get it working in IE, you need to have an ICO file extension.

I'm currently looking for a way to alter the $head variable in page.tpl.php in order to switch the favicon based on the browser (if anyone happens across this post!)

jay.lee.bio’s picture

jay.lee.bio CreditAttribution: jay.lee.bio commented

Ngreenwood6, the favicon itself must also be created correctly for IE. I wrote a blog post on the definitive way to do this. I hope it helps some people: http://jayl.ee/blog/2013/04/30/the-definitive-way-to-create-a-favicon