I don't have any of the internal icons showing in browsers. With wget -S, I'm seeing a 404 and X-Squid-Error: ERR_INVALID_REQ 0 on the icon urls. This is just a local cache on my FreeBSD 7.0 desktop, short_icon_urls doesn't seem to make any difference, and global_internal_static is set to its default. The path looks correct in squid.conf and the permissions look OK: in squid.conf: icon_directory /usr/local/etc/squid/icons The permissions: rwxr-xr-x 2 root squid 1024 Mar 17 22:37 /usr/local/etc/squid/icons -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 166 Mar 17 22:37 /usr/local/etc/squid/icons/anthony-binhex.gif -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 192 Mar 17 22:37 /usr/local/etc/squid/icons/anthony-bomb.gif -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 176 Mar 17 22:37 /usr/local/etc/squid/icons/anthony-box.gif ... $ squid -v Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE18 configure options: '--bindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--sbindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--datadir=/usr/local/etc/squid' '--libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/squid' '--localstatedir=/usr/local/squid' '--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/squid' '--enable-removal-policies=lru heap' '--disable-linux-netfilter' '--disable-linux-tproxy' '--disable-epoll' '--enable-auth=basic ntlm digest' '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=DB NCSA PAM MSNT SMB YP' '--enable-digest-auth-helpers=password' '--enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user session unix_group wbinfo_group' '--enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=SMB' '--enable-negotiate-auth-helpers=squid_kerb_auth' '--with-pthreads' '--enable-storeio=ufs diskd null aufs' '--enable-err-languages=English' '--enable-default-err-language=English' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man' '--infodir=/usr/local/info/' 'i386-portbld-freebsd7.0' 'build_alias=i386-portbld-freebsd7.0' 'host_alias=i386-portbld-freebsd7.0' 'target_alias=i386-portbld-freebsd7.0' 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=athlon-mp ' 'LDFLAGS=' 'CPPFLAGS='