I came accross a strange request from one client. He wanted a favicon exactly same as some other website. I tried creating one using photoshop and Dynamic Drive tool.

First I took screen shot, then edited the screenshot using photoshop and created favicon using dyanmic drive online favicon genetation tool. But it did not created the same quality favicon image. Then i tried searching on google "how to copy favicon" and i did not got any result, so i decided to write this article.

If you came accross such situation, then simply see the source code of the html, you will see a line in head section,

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico">

So now open the browser new window, and type in the exact URL which is in href paramater
Example:  http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico

And you are done, just copy this image , by doing right click on it and save and use it anywhere you want. So you know now how to copy favicon.

For joomla website see joomla component for generating favicon