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Wikipedia's favicon, shown in Firefox. A favicon (/ ˈ f æ v. ɪ ˌ k ɒ n /; 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 [1] associated with a particular website or web page.
In addition to the URL, some address bars feature icons showing features or information about the site. For websites using a favicon (a small icon that represents the website), a small icon may be present within the address bar, a generic icon appearing if the website does not specify one. [1]
Edge will recognize if a page requires any of the removed technologies to run properly and suggest to the user to open the page in Internet Explorer instead. Another change was spoofing the user agent string , which claims to be Chrome and Safari , while also mentioning KHTML and Gecko , so that web servers that use user agent sniffing send ...
Bookmarks are called favorites or Internet shortcuts in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, and by virtue of that browser's large market share, these terms have been synonymous with bookmark since the First Browser War. [1] Bookmarks are normally accessed through a menu in the user's web browser, and folders are commonly used for organization.
On Microsoft consoles, Edge replaced IE as the dominant browser a few months after its release in 2015. [201] Market share varies by region. On some days of the week, Edge takes second place with a 10.02% share in the US on PC, and Firefox and Edge have a very similar share globally, switching places for second and third depending on the day.
A distinctive feature of the engine is that it JIT compiles scripts on a separate CPU core, parallel to the web browser. [1] [2] Though Microsoft has in the past pointed out that other elements, such as rendering and marshalling, are just as important for a browser's overall performance, [3] their improvements to the engine were in response to evolving competing browsers, compared to which IE8 ...
To pass the test the browser must also display a generic favicon in the browser toolbar, not the favicon image from the Acid3 web server. The Acid3 server when asked for favicon.ico gives a 404 response code, but with image data in the body.
In 2014, MSHTML was forked to create the engine EdgeHTML for Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. The new engine is "designed for interoperability with the modern web" and deprecates or removes a number of legacy components and behaviors, including document modes, ensuring that pure, standards-compliant HTML will render properly in browsers without ...