Google’s new favicon: I like the old one better

Posted by Abhijith as Uncategorized

Google have changed their ‘favicon’, i.e. the icon displayed on tabs and in the address bar in Firefox 2 and in IE7 (I wonder if it is displayed in the older IEs?).

From the capital G taken from their “Google” to a lower case blue coloured g from the same font, it does not have the same imperial feeling it used to.

Old icon

New icon

A search yielded only 2 results; looks like only a few have noticed enough to document it.

I prefer the older icon. The new one may seem stylish but…..an upper case character plays more on the mind than a lower case one.

I guess it is a permanent fixture, but I would love to imagine that it is only a temporary change.

:’-(

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May 31, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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