Gmail Favicon Issues

http://devblog.com.au/gmail-favicon-issues

by benjy1 • 13 years ago

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This happened to my work email tab, but not my personal email tab, so now I can finally tell them apart!

I'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• 13 years ago

Or use an extension to change the favicon, such as https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-hate-your-favico... (change favicon on url google.com/mail/u/0/ or /1/ etc..)

swampthing• 13 years ago

I'm with you - I thought this was actually a new enhancement and was pretty happy with it.

Widdershin• 13 years ago

I had just assumed my work had changed the Gmail favicon!

brianpgordon• 13 years ago

My work gmail and personal gmail have always had slightly different icons for some reason:

http://i.imgur.com/GKTUNbI.png

thejosh• 13 years ago

This occurs when I'm an admin of the Google Apps account, anyone wanna test with a non-admin account?

mcpherrinm• 13 years ago

I've been seeing it on my non-admin account at work for a few days now.

j0k3r• 13 years ago

Or you can just use this awesome userscript (screenhost are dead btw ..) http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24430

sam152• 13 years ago

Seems like a lot of extra work rather than just clicking a checkbox.

neeee• 13 years ago

You just need to click a button to install it.

pattle• 13 years ago

There are bigger problems in the world than this

NoPiece• 13 years ago

That'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• 13 years ago

And you're waking up this morning to go to your job curing cancer and inventing nuclear fusion, right?

hartator• 13 years ago

5 mins per people missing the tab, a lot of waste time worldide = How many life time ruined?

kaushikt• 13 years ago

i have been facing this issue for quite a while now. Don't really know why its an issue though

willvarfar• 13 years ago

Oh 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?

um3042• 13 years ago

The suggested "Unread Message Icon" is even uglier than the cog. Reverting back!

alecsmart1• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

That is the favicon for the Google Apps Admin Console - 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• 13 years ago

I 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.

timdorr2• 13 years ago

There'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.

benjy1• 13 years ago

That's exactly what the article says no?

timdorr2• 13 years ago

Dammit, I completely read the article wrong. Labs wasn't capitalized, so I didn't grok it correctly. Well, it saves you clicking on the article if you just came straight to the comments...

joekrill• 13 years ago

I 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!

um3042• 13 years ago

I just noticed that Gmail has reverted that cog icon and replaced it with good old envelope image. Power of an HN thread may be?

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