I am working on a site that was a copy of a previous site. I have in the past used the following trick to force the browser to reload the new icon:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico?v=2" />
But it's not working this time. I have tried different numbers after the v= and for a couple days it showed the old icon; now it's just showing the default document icon (in Chrome).
The file path is correct. What could I be doing wrong? I created the icon using an icon generator (the same one I always use)...
Does this trick not work anymore?
You can try CTRL + F5 a couple of times to refresh the browser cache