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Archived Comments, replied by XianPalin @ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:57:44 -0500

XianPalin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:57:44 -0500

This seems to be cancelled out by the "Googlepedia" extension, which injects a Wikipedia entry alongside the google search results. Would be nice to have these play together.

http://code.google.com/p/googlepedia/

Archived Comments, replied by rafamx @ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:37:05 -0500

rafamx — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:37:05 -0500

thanks i miss the old favicon

Archived Comments, replied by the3seashells @ Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:02:13 -0500

the3seashells — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:02:13 -0500

I am glad I am not the only person who disliked the new favicon and could not pick it out from among their many tabs. Thank you for writing this!

Archived Comments, replied by MkFly @ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:21:25 -0500

MkFly — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:21:25 -0500

Grr ... the whole point of the if statement for me was to avoid a bazillion @exclude lines ... looks like that isn't going to happen. :~

iGoogle uses the main Google domain, yet specifically sets the shortcut icon to http://www.google.com/favicon.ico ... their pages are sure damned inconsistent. Some apps get their own subdomain, some don't ... sometimes they set ICON sometimes they set icon, or SHORTCUT ICON ... or shortcut icon ... and in iGoogle's case, when it isn't even needed! Hah!

Oh well ... fixed now! Thanks again gantt.

Archived Comments, replied by gantt @ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:28:12 -0500

gantt — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:28:12 -0500

I also suggest removing the last if, which is unnecessary and prevents the replacement of the favicon in iGoogle. Another subdomains that should be excluded: http://docs.google.com/*, http://spreadsheets.google.com/*, http://sites.google.com/*, http://pages.google.com/* + the https versions.

Archived Comments, replied by MkFly @ Sat, 31 May 2008 03:10:42 -0500

MkFly — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:10:42 -0500

Thanks gantt. :o]

Archived Comments, replied by gantt @ Sat, 31 May 2008 02:37:25 -0500

gantt — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:37:25 -0500

You should replace .com with .tld in your includes to also allow international domains (all people outside US are redirected to local domains). You should also exclude these sites because they have custom favicons: http://www.google.com/calendar/*, http://www.google.com/reader/*, http://picasaweb.google.com/*, http://pack.google.com/*, http://toolbar.google.com/*, http://desktop.google.com/*, https://www.google.com/health/*, http://www.google.com/notebook/*, http://webaccelerator.google.com/*, http://groups.google.com/*.

Archived Comments, replied by RussellHarrison @ Fri, 30 May 2008 22:29:20 -0500

RussellHarrison — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:29:20 -0500

Thanks so much for hacking this together so quickly. I don't know what Google is thinking with this but the lowercase version is SO much less distinctive. I can now tell witch tab I'm looking for again.

Archived Comments, replied by MkFly @ Fri, 30 May 2008 16:10:10 -0500

MkFly — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:10:10 -0500

Thanks for the code dshea. :o)

Try her now ... Reader and Notebook can't agree on whether to use icon or shortcut icon, so I included them both. Those apps (at least) will now give their normal favicons.

Archived Comments, replied by dshea @ Fri, 30 May 2008 15:25:50 -0500

dshea — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:25:50 -0500

Some of the google applications (reader, notebook) run off the main www.google.com domain but use their own favicons. Maybe you could add a condition like this to the code to only replace the icon for pages that don't define a favicon or set it to /favicon.ico?

if ((!document.evaluate('//link[translate(@rel, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWZYZ") = "SHORTCUT ICON"]', document, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null).iterateNext())
|| (document.evaluate('//link[translate(@rel, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ") = "SHORTCUT ICON"]/@href', document, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null).stringValue == '/favicon.ico'))

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews @ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:32 -0600

Jesse Andrews — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:32 -0600

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