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If you’re a power Google Chrome user then you probably know that we CAN’T change the favicons of Chrome bookmarks. But it’s possible in Internet Explorer and it’s super easy. Since Internet Explorer stores all the bookmarks in your PC’s Favorites folder (C:\Users\<Your User Name>\Favorites), you can change its favicon by using the “Change Icon…” option of each bookmark’s Properties (Right-click Bookmark > Properties > Change Icon…).
Now coming back to Google Chrome, you can’t change the default favicons of websites in your Chrome Bookmarks Bar. According to this article it’s possible to change the favicons manually by using SQLite Database Browser (but I don’t know). Also, there are some Chrome extensions like Favicon Changer, I Hate Your Favicon and Bookmark Favicon Changer on the Chrome Web Store that enable us to change the Chrome bookmarks icons manually. But I haven’t tried any of them personally as I like to keep the number of extensions that I’m using to a minimal.
Read: Top 25 Google Chrome Extensions I Can’t Live Without
Change Chrome Bookmark Icons Without Installing Any Extensions
Wait, I’ve found a way to change the favicons of Chrome bookmarks and it’s super easy. It’s done by creating an HTML file on your PC or on a web server that redirects to your preferred website (by using simple HTML redirects).
For example, you can check my Google Chrome Bookmarks Bar and you’ll see that the favicon of Feedly.com is not the default one. I have done that by creating an HTML file called Feedly.html on my server at www.maheshone.com/Feedly.html.
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…Added the following codes:
<head>
<title>Feedly</title>
<link rel=”icon” href=”http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/ef8523581bb2e5c5faf9fd8cbfe3955c?s=16″ type=”image/x-icon”/>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; url=http://feedly.com” />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
…saved as Feedly.html and uploaded to my web server.
As you can see, I have created an HTML redirect that redirects the HTML file to Feedly.com and I used the HTML link rel Attribute to set a custom favicon.
Don’t Have A Web Hosting?
If you don’t have a server then you can create the above HTML file and save it on your own PC. And then simply drag and drop that file to your Chrome Bookmarks Bar and rename it. Done!
BONUS:
Want to make your bookmarks bar neat and clean? Well, in Chrome, you can add a bookmark WITHOUT entering a name. Google Chrome by default uses the title of the web page as the bookmark name so you can simply remove that and it shows only the favicon.
So… now the bookmarks bar will look like:
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It also works in Mozilla Firefox but it’s not possible in Internet Explorer since we can’t create an Internet Shortcut without entering a filename.
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