A small icon or image that represents a website, usually shown in the browser tab or bookmarks.
A modern blend of “favorite” and “icon,” first used by Microsoft Internet Explorer in the late 1990s for icons shown in the Favorites (bookmarks) list. The shortened form “favicon” became the web standard term.
Favicons are tiny but powerful—they’re often the first visual your brain uses to spot a site among dozens of tabs. The name quietly reminds you they started as icons just for your browser “favorites,” before becoming universal.
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