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.
Works nicely. Remember to wrap text in text editor to make pasting easier !
BTW, I jst love that new favicon, so design ;)
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
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.
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.
Hi,
I am using
http://www.mobilefish.com/services/favicon/favicon.php to create my favicons. This site also contains other useful tools.