Thread:Extension talk:Favorites/Star icon didn't work for me

I'm using MW 1.17, and I set $wgUseIconFavorite = true; I got a text labeled tab, but no star icon. The watch functions, and other functions, are all in a dropdown. Is this standard, or do I have something odd about my installation? Maybe something has changed in 1.17 that the Favorites extension isn't compatible with?