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Gmail Favicon Issues
- aguynamedben 13y agoThis happened to my work email tab, but not my personal email tab, so now I can finally tell them apart!
- MattBearman 13y agoI'm in the same situation, and I hope this never gets a fix from Google, as like you I like being able to tell the difference when the tabs are too small to show the email address.
- ozh 13y agoOr use an extension to change the favicon, such as https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-hate-your-favicon/laggbmpbikikiablknnppgglelkncemk?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-hate-your-favico... (change favicon on url google.com/mail/u/0/ or /1/ etc..)
- swampthing 13y agoI'm with you - I thought this was actually a new enhancement and was pretty happy with it.
- Widdershin 13y agoI had just assumed my work had changed the Gmail favicon!
- brianpgordon 13y agoMy work gmail and personal gmail have always had slightly different icons for some reason: http://i.imgur.com/GKTUNbI.png http://i.imgur.com/GKTUNbI.png
- thejosh 13y agoThis occurs when I'm an admin of the Google Apps account, anyone wanna test with a non-admin account?
- mcpherrinm 13y agoI've been seeing it on my non-admin account at work for a few days now.
- j0k3r 13y agoOr you can just use this awesome userscript (screenhost are dead btw ..) http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24430 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24430
- pattle 13y agoThere are bigger problems in the world than this
- NoPiece 13y agoThat's clearly true. But if you are like me and tend to have dozens of tabs open, the favicon change makes scanning for Gmail a lot harder which is annoying. That it is also ugly is adding insult to injury.
- omni 13y agoAnd you're waking up this morning to go to your job curing cancer and inventing nuclear fusion, right?
- hartator 13y ago5 mins per people missing the tab, a lot of waste time worldide = How many life time ruined?
- kaushikt 13y agoi have been facing this issue for quite a while now. Don't really know why its an issue though
- willvarfar 13y agoOh the ugly spanner icon turned up on my works gmail a week or two back and its been bugging me to bits! Why was it showing a spanner? It made no sense to me. A bug in gmail perhaps? But if it affects so many people, why haven't google noticed it before then?
- um304 13y agoThe suggested "Unread Message Icon" is even uglier than the cog. Reverting back!
- alecsmart1 13y agoI noticed this about a week back in our business account. If you view the page source, the favicon actually points to a favicon in a your company's folder (for Google Apps). I have a feeling they will allow us to customize the icon shortly from their admin panel.
- adrianb 13y agoThat is the favicon for the Google Apps Admin Console - https://admin.google.com/ https://admin.google.com/ . I suspect the bug only happens for Google Apps accounts (it happens on my Google Apps, not on my personal Gmail).
- kaiserama 13y agoI thought I read that it shows up for a google app account that is also the domain administrator. But I'm not sure if this is true or not. I wouldn't say this is a "fix" as much as it's a work around for showing that other favicon.
- timdorr 13y agoThere's also a Gmail Labs feature to display unread message count in the favicon ("Unread message icon by Manu C"). That is both super-useful and fixes the favicon issue.
- joekrill 13y agoI stopped using the "Unread Message Icon" a while back because it would often get "stuck". How does a screw-up like this go unfixed for so long anyway? It's been at least a week. It's only a favicon!
- um304 13y agoI just noticed that Gmail has reverted that cog icon and replaced it with good old envelope image. Power of an HN thread may be?