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Ensure reloading of favicons

Thomas Eisenbarth
March 13, 2013Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Sometimes it seems a favicon does not work because your browser displays an old version or (in case of local development) a favicon of another project you worked on recently.

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Though, you can force your browser to really reload the favicon using some kind of additional version parameter string like this:

= favicon_link_tag("/favicon.ico?v=2")
Posted by Thomas Eisenbarth to makandra dev (2013-03-13 11:46)