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Some templates contain code that redirects the browser to another directory or another icon file. To determine where your new favicon should be, examine <code>http://yoursite.com/templates/your_template/index.php</code> and look for code that contains the text <link rel="shortcut icon". There you will find the directory and the name of the icon file. Copy your icon to that place and give it the the name that link is pointing to (you might want to backup the old file). Make sure you set the security correctly such that you webserver has access to that file. Look at the example below.
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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yoursite.com/templates/your_template/icon/favicon.ico" /></translate></source>

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If you don't want to just change the '''favicon.ico''' file in its respective template directory you can find the reference to the '''favicon.ico''' file in the '''html.php''' document. The path is '''"........\libraries\joomla\document\html\html.php"'''. This should prevent the icon from toggling if you use
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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yoursite.com/templates/your_template/icon/youricon.ico" /></translate></source> 
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in the template html and you don't remove the favicon.ico file. (why call the icon twice?)

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From the html.php
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// Try to find a favicon by checking the template and root folder
		$path = $directory . DS;
		$dirs = array( $path, JPATH_BASE . DS );
		foreach ($dirs as $dir )
		{
			$icon =   $dir . 'favicon.ico';
			if (file_exists( $icon ))
			{
				$path = str_replace( JPATH_BASE . DS, '', $dir );
				$path = str_replace( '\\', '/', $path );
				$this->addFavicon( JURI::base(true).'/'.$path . 'favicon.ico' );
				break;''
	
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