How to change Google’s favicon to the old one

Google changed its favicon with a new and stupid one, personally I don’t like it at all and I would like to change it back to the old, classical one. I found a great way to do that.

There is a Greasmonkey script that runs with Firefox and Safari, sorry for the Internet Explorer or Opera users. Ok, so to do that you first need to install the Greasemonkey script like an add-on for the browser, and after restarting the browser, you’ll see the link for installing it. After doing that, here is what I got:

Before and after:

google-favicons.png

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Author:
Alex
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9 Responses to “How to change Google’s favicon to the old one”

  1. Why, oh why?

  2. Well, I heard many people complaining about the new Google favicon so I thought that I will make them happy writing this.


  3. Sidewinder

    This does make me happy :)

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