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I am looking for a site for somebody, and fixing errors as I find them.

There is no Favicon.. that is ok, I can fix that.

My question is, do browsers (or certain browsers, Chrome in this case) request favicon.ico as soon as they load a site.. or maybe on check that there is no alternative icon path mentioned in the source.. irrespective of whether "favicon.ico" is actually mentioned in the page source?

Mike Irving
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That was the original behaviour, yes. /favicon.ico was an implicitly present file which (some) browsers would check for. Only later did that actually morph into a proper standard with <meta> tags, arbitrary file names and image formats other than .ico.

deceze
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