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HTML What is this "icon=" code?

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drkenrich

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I am NOT a coder, just a minimal hacker. I tried to reduce the size of my bookmark list to transfer to my phone and found something I didn't understand.

In each link section the name, link, title, date, etc. are there. There is, also, a favicon link. then there is a code for "icon=. . ." that is unbelievable! It's not required at all. I've been deleting them with no problem. The question is "WHAT IS IT?".

A few (very few) are only about 3 to 5 screen lines long while others are several pages long. It seems to hold a LOT more data than a simple graphic code to paint the icon. I wonder if it's something to do with permissions, site cookies, or extended and invisible marketing or spying (Oh, heaven forbid!).

Take a look at your own bookmark file with any code editor (I use Dreamweaver and Notepad+) and please explain what's hidden there.

Thank you in advance.
 
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cbreemer said:
With "the bookmark file", do you mean the bookmark file of your browser ? If so, which browser ? Details matter.
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I use the updated version of Firefox. I save the emails to an bookmarks.html file. That file is what I'm referring to. Each link has the basic information, but some include ICON UCI= and ICON=. I can delete both and it makes no difference to their use as links or reimport to Firefox.
 
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If there's no data in these tags, then it stands to reason you can delete them without any effect. But then it's strange that they should be there in the first place. I did not see this stuff in my Chrome bookmarks file. Perhaps a Firefox user here can shed some light ?
 
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