Remove default favicon on localhost
I developed a website with a favicon and now every time I access localhost (for my other projects), I get that same favicon showing up. I'm on OSX, using Chrome. I tried clearing the cache; it flashed to the default unknown favicon first, then immediately grabbed the website one (that I don't want). Anyone know where to find that favicon so I can remove it? None of my other browsers have this problem (Firefox, Safari).
To fix this, I went into Preferences, Under the Hood, Clear Browsing Data, and selected all the options with "from the beginning of time" as the date reference. I was hoping to not have to do this and lose all my browsing history/data, but it worked.
For Mac, delete: ${user.home}/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Favicons
For Windows: go to %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
and delete favicons
and favicons-journal
files
Source: http://www.nullalo.com/en/how-to-delete-google-chrome-favicon-cache/ [see #3 in the link]
I find this to be the least intrusive method since it does not delete your browser history or anything else as suggested in the other solutions.