Gmail Favicon Issues

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

That is the favicon for the Google Apps Admin Console - <a href="https://admin.google.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;admin.google.com&#x2F;</a> . I suspect the bug only happens for Google Apps accounts (it happens on my Google Apps, not on my personal Gmail).

There&#x27;s also a Gmail Labs feature to display unread message count in the favicon (&quot;Unread message icon by Manu C&quot;). That is both super-useful and fixes the favicon issue.

This occurs when I&#x27;m an admin of the Google Apps account, anyone wanna test with a non-admin account?

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&#x27;s folder (for Google Apps). I have a feeling they will allow us to customize the icon shortly from their admin panel.

There are bigger problems in the world than this

Oh the ugly spanner icon turned up on my works gmail a week or two back and its been bugging me to bits!<p>Why was it showing a spanner? It made no sense to me. A bug in gmail perhaps? But if it affects <i>so</i> many people, why haven&#x27;t google noticed it before then?

i have been facing this issue for quite a while now. Don&#x27;t really know why its an issue though

I stopped using the &quot;Unread Message Icon&quot; a while back because it would often get &quot;stuck&quot;. How does a screw-up like this go unfixed for so long anyway? It&#x27;s been at least a week. It&#x27;s only a favicon!

Or you can just use this awesome userscript (screenhost are dead btw ..) <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24430" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;userscripts.org&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;show&#x2F;24430</a>

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?

The suggested &quot;Unread Message Icon&quot; is even uglier than the cog. Reverting back!