New Google g Favorite Icon Sucks? Revert Back to Old Favicon Hack
Google has used a new favicon.ico (favorite icon), which serves as the identity for the website and display as the icon for web browser’s tabs, URI address bar, and Bookmarks (in Firefox) or Favorites (in Internet Explorer). Some feed readers such as Bloglines also display the favicons.
The new Google favicon, which can be downloaded from http://www.google.com/favicon.ico, is also a 16×16 pixel image file (which is standard size for more favicon.ico), and has the lower-case blue purple g text in rounded corner transparent rectangle.
The old Google favicon is a upper-case capital G in a blue, green and red bordered rectangle.
Not everybody is impressed with the new Google favicon style and design. If you’re also one of the people who feels that the new Google favicon sucks and dislikes it, here’s the hack to bring back and revert to the old Google favicon.
- Download and install Firefox.
- Install Greasemonkey extension for Firefox.
- Install the Google’s Old Favicon script from userscripts.org for Greasemoneky. After installing the script, Firefox will display the old favicon for Google instead of new one.
Note that the script only change the Google favicon for on-screen web pages display. To change back to old Google favicon in the Firefox Bookmark list, install Favicon Picker 2 to set your favorite Google bookmark icon (in Firefox 2 only).
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June 8th, 2008 19:17
Hallelluyah, I hated that new crappy ‘g’
Thanks.
June 9th, 2008 15:42
yea, hate that new weird looking “8″ favicon. i don’t hate it because its new and im not used to it. the reason… it looks so week. just looking at it - the thing looks like a lasso or a weird number 8. i dont like the explanation, sounds fake - how the hell is this favicon more adaptable than the old strong capital G?
July 12th, 2008 08:01
Google! The new favicon looks like a pansy, please revert back to the old, powerful, dominant G! Also, the icon is BARELY VISIBLE and not recognizable without its square, white space.
The new icon is entirely unrecognizable. I thought google got hacked by the icon monster…
August 23rd, 2008 19:54
Yeah i agree with eweryone here the new google icon looks like something a dog would leave on the grass please change it back to the old icon.