Change your Firefox (Iceweasel) Icons

Sunday, 21. October 2007 8:58 - daniel - Other - 0 Comments




While looking for a wallpaper if found this darkyfox wallpaper + Firefox icon. Since I really like to look of this icon, I wanted to replace the original Firefox icon with this one. Changing the launcher icons can be done from the various menus, but changing the icon that Firefox displays while running is a bit more complicated. From mozilla.org:

You can change Firefox's default window icon to any icon you want, by following these steps:

  1. Go to the folder you installed Firefox in (e.g. C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\) and then go to the subfolder chrome.
  2. While in chrome, create a new subfolder called icons, then go to that folder and create yet another subfolder called default. The full path to this folder could be C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome\icons\default\.
  3. Choose the icon you want to use (on Windows use .ico files, on Linux use .xpm files) and then place it in this folder and rename it to main-window.[ext], e.g. main-window.ico on Windows and main-window.xpm on Linux.

Note: In addition to the main window, you can also change the icon on the Bookmark Manager and JavaScript Console. The icon names are bookmark-window.[ext] and jsconsoleWindow.[ext], respectively.

After this is done, restart Firefox and you should be able to see your chosen icon in the title of the browser windows.




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