Google's favicon has changed to a new design, and the history of the transition so far

A small icon indicating the site displayed on the left side of the address bar, favorites, bookmarks, or tabFavicon(Favicon) "Google's favicon has switched to a new design.

Google's New Favicon
http://googlesystem.blogspot.de/2012/08/googles-new-favicon.html

This is a new Google favicon, simple coloring only for blue, probably because the number of colors is small, it is probably expected that the file size is decreasing than before, boasting the access amount as much as Google In this case, it should be possible to further speed up display and reading and reduce the transfer amount by this change.


By accessing the following address, it is possible to check the new favicon directly.
http://www.google.com/images/google_favicon_128.png
http://www.google.com/favicon.ico

Below is the favicon up till now,January 9th 2009Those released to.


It will be changed like this when displayed on the tab.


Furthermore, updating the favicon before that30th May 2008So it was like the one in the middle tab of the image below.


What was the favicon before 2008 is the tab at the far right of the image below.


In addition, to change to a new favicon, Google said that "you can delete the cache of the browser".