Use Google’s New Favicon in Your Search Box

Posted on Jun 05, 2008 in Hacks

google-new-favicon-firefox Do you really love the new Firefox favicon that was released a short while ago?  Well, thanks to a little shifting around of Firefox’s internal organs Mozilla Links has come up with a way you can update your search box’s Google favicon to match.  Here are the instructions:

    • Locate the searchplugins folder in your Firefox install folder. (typically C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ on Windows).
    • Open the google.xml file with a text editor.
    • Locate a section that starts with <Image width=”16″ height=”16″>. You will see it is followed by a long series of characters (the encoded Google icon).
    • Replace it with this equally unreadable code: the new encoded Google icon. Ensure the closing </Image> stays there.
    • Save the file and restart Firefox.

      If your picky about this sort of thing, or you just really love the new look this is a quick and easy hack to do.  Also check out Mozilla Links for more information on this awesome tip.

      • Transcontinental

        Works nicely. Remember to wrap text in text editor to make pasting easier !
        BTW, I jst love that new favicon, so design ;)

      • Transcontinental

        Works nicely. Remember to wrap text in text editor to make pasting easier !
        BTW, I jst love that new favicon, so design ;)

      • http://loucypher.wordpress.com/ LouCypher

        If you prefer the old Google favicon for tabs, location bar, and bookmarks, DavidONE made a user style for Stylish
        http://userstyles.org/styles/7688

      • http://loucypher.wordpress.com/ LouCypher

        If you prefer the old Google favicon for tabs, location bar, and bookmarks, DavidONE made a user style for Stylish
        http://userstyles.org/styles/7688

      • hangfromthefloor

        It’s a great, fresh new favicon, but I hate how the browser stores its own version and will never get automatically updated. Firefox should check often whether the site has changed its favicons and update them.

      • hangfromthefloor

        It’s a great, fresh new favicon, but I hate how the browser stores its own version and will never get automatically updated. Firefox should check often whether the site has changed its favicons and update them.

      • hangfromthefloor

        It’s a great, fresh new favicon, but I hate how the browser saves its own version once and will never automatically update. Even at this amount of simplicity, it’s too much of a hassle for me to manually reconfigure and a substantial turn-off. Firefox should check often if the site has changed its favicon and update it.

      • hangfromthefloor

        It’s a great, fresh new favicon, but I hate how the browser saves its own version once and will never automatically update. Even at this amount of simplicity, it’s too much of a hassle for me to manually reconfigure and a substantial turn-off. Firefox should check often if the site has changed its favicon and update it.

      • Jean

        Hi,
        I am using
        http://www.mobilefish.com/services/favicon/favicon.php to create my favicons. This site also contains other useful tools.

      • Jean

        Hi,
        I am using
        http://www.mobilefish.com/services/favicon/favicon.php to create my favicons. This site also contains other useful tools.

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