Google has a new favicon (google.com)

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hard refresh if you don't see it at first

The new favicon is a white letter "g" on blue ground. If anyone, like me, is wondering, you can initiate a "hard refresh" by holding down shift while clicking on the reload button in Chrome (or, I assume, Firefox). Doing so circumvents all caching inside your browser.

arscan 13y ago ↗

Looks pretty similar to the 2008 version: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/one-fish-two-fish-red...

damian2000 13y ago ↗

to me it looks like something more corporate ...

Khao 13y ago ↗

Had to browse to https://www.google.com/favicon.ico to actually see it on Google's homepage since I'm using Google over https. I tried hard refresh and it didn't change until I browsed to the https version of the new favicon.

antidaily 13y ago ↗

48x48? Is that a retina thing? Didn't know you could do that.

cmkrnl 13y ago ↗

I like it that they went (back to/for) this version. The earlier one had absolutely no taste, IMHO.

The change hasn't happened yet on google.no.

shock3naw 13y ago ↗

https://www.google.com/images/google_favicon_128.png (found in the source on the homepage)

franze 13y ago ↗

different image (favicon is a g centered, this is a g on the left hand side)

FrancescoRizzi 13y ago ↗

is it me or this (and it's not the only thing in recent Google design tweaks/refreshes) is quite "[formerly-known-as] Metro" ? Flatter, less colors, more minimal... (not complaining, just wondering)