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Can you set a custom app tab icon?

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knoteye
knoteye
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Some sites don't have favicons, so their app tab isn't distinguishable. Is there a way to select an image to use for these tabs?

An example site is Google Spreadsheets.

Some sites don't have favicons, so their app tab isn't distinguishable. Is there a way to select an image to use for these tabs? An example site is Google Spreadsheets.

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rasar
rasar
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Same problem here. Yahoo is a good, generic example - Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Mail all have the same "Y-Bang" icon.

ricepirate
ricepirate
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It's pretty simple, even in FF4, to customize your app tab favicons.

Because the app tab favicon is generated by the bookmark just...

(1) install this -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-favicon-changer/ (2) view your bookmarks, right click and select the custom image you want (3) restart browser (for new image to "take")

Done.

Dan Robinson
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I'm running Firefox 5 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. The addon you referenced (Bookmark Favicon Changer 1.46) isn't working for me. Supposedly all image types are supported, but when I right-click on a bookmark and select "Change Favicon," I get a popup window where I can search for files on my computer, and all the files are "greyed out" so that I can't select them -- pngs, jpgs, even ico files.

Also, a heads-up for other Mac users: the only way I could find to right click on a Bookmark was via the Bookmarks sidebar. I can't right-click a bookmark on the Bookmarks Toolbar or the Bookmarks list at the far right-hand side.

vanillared
vanillared
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Try using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/identfavicon/

This addon creates an icon for websites without a default icon.

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