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While my google-search-skills are pretty freaking awesome *cough cough* I'm not able to find answers to all of my questions so that's why I'll be asking them here. When I get the answer I'll edit the first post in order to make some sort of summary of newbie-questions 'n answers.

Q: What is a favicon?
A: It's the little icon displayed next to the addressbar (or in the tab next to the title)
See [en.wikipedia.org] for more info.


Q: How to set a favicon per domain?
A: n/a

Q: I deleted my favoicon.ico and even after restarting the dns client I can still see it. How to get rid of it?
A: Favicons are cached differently depending on the browser.
If you're using Google Chrome: Delete the favicons file in ../Google/Chrome/User Data/Default

If you're using MS Internet Explorer:

Open internet explorer.
Click menu > tools > internet options.
Click general > temporary internet files > "settings" button.
Click "view files" button.
Find your old favicon.ico file and delete it.
Restart browser(internet explorer).

If you are using Mozilla Firefox you shall have to Google a solution on your own as I haven't found one that works yet...

Q: When I first installed wamp there were these databases in phpMyAdmin.
(1) infornation_schema, (2) mysql and (3) performance_schema. - Can I delete those?

A: (1) Apparently the information_schema is just "a bunch of views" on which you cannot perform data\
modifications on. (1) So it's no problem if you delete it.
(2) mysql I have no clue. So for now (2) keep it.
(3) Performance_schema seems to be useful for something which I don't quite grasp:
The MySQL Performance Schema is a feature for monitoring MySQL Server execution at a low level.
(3) Just keep it.



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 06/04/2013 11:54PM by Crucidal.

I like it, you are asking and answering your own questions. That almost documentation. Well done.


Q: I deleted my favoicon.ico and even after restarting the dns client I can still see it. How to get rid of it?
CRTL + F5 will refresh the browser cache. That may get rid of it.

ghehe, ctrl+f5 is a shortcut you used this afternoon so I've already tried that. Even closing my browser wasn't effective.

Do a search on favicon cache, they are cached in different placed depending on the browser you use

RiggsFolly Wrote:
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> Do a search on favicon cache, they are cached in
> different placed depending on the browser you use


clever riggs! It solved my problem! I shall update the Q&A

ah, Now it's starting to get confusing.
After discovering how to get rid of the favicon cache I started experimenting on how to set a favicon per domain.... after re-loading a favicon however I wasn't able to delete it in the same manner as I did in the Answer of this Q&A... (using chrome). so it's still a WIP