Update Firefox’s search bar with new Google favicon
Posted by Percy Cabello on May 31st, 2008 • Tags:
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Search bar with new Google search iconHave you noticed the new Google search favicon? I am not sure if Google intends to keep it forever but I like the refresh.

You can update the Firefox’s default Google search plugin to show the new Google search icon:

  1. Locate the searchplugins folder in your Firefox install folder. (typically C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ on Windows).
  2. Open the google.xml file with a text editor.
  3. 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).
  4. Replace it with this equally unreadable code: the new encoded Google icon. Ensure the closing </Image> stays there.
  5. Save the file and restart Firefox.

Enjoy a fresh new Google search icon!

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Atnaujinkime Google favicon Firefox paieškos langelyje | Radiocool said on May 31, 2008, 2:59 am:

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Pascal said on May 31, 2008, 4:39 am:

I tried it with Flock 1.2, Firefox 2.0.0.14 and Firefox 3.0 RC1 it isn’t working

My OS is Vista SP 1

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Shahvar » آرشيو » تغيير نسخه جديد favicon Ú¯ÙˆÚ¯Ù„ در نوار جستجوي فايرفاكس said on May 31, 2008, 5:50 am:

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foxiewire.com said on May 31, 2008, 6:02 am:

Update Firefox’s search bar with new Google favicon – Mozilla Links…

Have you noticed the new Google search favicon? I am not sure if Google intends to keep it forever but I like the refresh. You can update the Firefox’s default Google search plugin to show the new Google search icon:…

Morbus said on May 31, 2008, 6:25 am:

It’s really ugly, and even though it doesn’t bother me a bit (as I have ALL my search favicons customized a long time ago), it’s surprisingly dumb how google doesn’t work with alpha channels for transparencies on their favicons…

If anyone cares:

Edit: I’m replacing the posted data URI with a link to it: Google’s Blue capital G icon. Percy

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gxg said on May 31, 2008, 6:52 am:

Nice, I’ve been wanting to do this ever since I’ve saw the new favicon.
Thanks!

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Starr said on May 31, 2008, 11:10 am:

Works in Mac OS X, too.

Thanks.

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David Naylor said on May 31, 2008, 11:57 am:

Nice tip, but I’ve gotta say, it doesn’t look very Googley!

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Andrew said on May 31, 2008, 8:27 pm:

I don’t have a google.xml file :(

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Jordan said on June 1, 2008, 6:06 pm:

if you’re running windows vista, make sure you launch your text editor in administrator mode.

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Andrew said on June 2, 2008, 12:39 am:

I got it to work on my Vista machine… I like the new logo. It’s something new and fresh. It also looks like the second g in the GOOGLE logo

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funTomas said on June 3, 2008, 12:22 pm:

A-ha, now gPhone makes sense. Smart PR Googlers indeed.

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Actualiza la barra de búsqueda de Firefox con el nuevo favicon de Google « dy3g0’s trench said on June 21, 2008, 10:53 pm:

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Fitch said on June 26, 2008, 3:48 pm:

Andrew: the instructions are wrong, it’s in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\ on Windows

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Firefox 3 tip: search box的icon换成Google的新标志 - Kukoo's Blog said on July 22, 2008, 9:01 am:

[...] Google前一段时间，把favicon给换了，从原来的一个大G，换成了现在的一个小g。 Firefox 3 中，浏览器的地址栏上已经可以看到这个变化，但是搜索框中的Google标志，还是原来的大G。 想要换吗？ MozillaLinks给了一个小窍门：修改搜索框插件中的图标定义。 [...]

Nick said on July 25, 2008, 12:09 am:

I must say, great little write up. I hate the default Google icon. And this is a definite upgrade. As small as it is.

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Mycroft Project said on July 31, 2008, 2:05 pm:

You can also get most variants here:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/google-search-plugins.html

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Jim said on August 16, 2008, 9:23 am:

Hi,
I am using
http://www.mobilefish.com/services/favicon/favicon.php to create my favicons. This site also contains other useful tools.

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William said on September 14, 2008, 3:01 pm:

How do you do this on Mac OS X?

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Jesse said on October 9, 2008, 8:20 am:

I used this method to update the google favicon many times before, but today it just couldn’t work!

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Update Firefox’s search bar with new Google favicon, again - Mozilla Links said on January 12, 2009, 10:24 pm:

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SanderG said on January 13, 2009, 1:37 pm:

I believe there’s something wrong in the image encoding, halfway it changes from base64 to URL encoding.

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Actualizar el favicon de la barra de busqueda de Firefox « ✩ Apurado y confundido ✩ said on January 15, 2009, 8:35 am:

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Checker said on April 15, 2009, 7:13 am:

Simply load the new version of the search plugin here http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=google

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