I’ve been using Google Chrome all day, on the iMac at the shop where I just started working, and now at home. I like a number of things about it, including the Much-Aggrieved Toppy Tabs™, the conditional bottom status bar (it shows up only when hovering over a link, or waiting for a page, etc.), the downloads bar, and that (Most Importantly for me in the long run) it uses the Keychain to store passwords. Like Safari and Camino and every other Mac application. Moving out of Firefox after I’d tried it for a while was painful, because I’d saved so many passwords in its included module.
Is it better than other browsers? I have no idea. It feels nice, it’s different, I like new things. It hasn’t sabotaged me yet.
But I don’t like the primary-colored logo. Which I gather is fairly common.
So I found a reasonably high-res image of it courtesy Google Images So I used an app called ICNS to PNG to rip the full-res 512-pixel png out of Chrome’s icon, processed it to be black and white and maintain the distinctions between the colors, hue-shifted it, and packaged it into an .icns file. To substitute it for Chrome’s default:
- Right-click on the Chrome App,
- Select “Show Package Contents,”
- Navigate to “Google Chrome.app/Contents/Resources,”
- Back up the original “app.icns” any way you like, and then
- Replace app.icns with the one I made.
You can download it by clicking the image above.
No big deal, but wanted to put it out there, and document my method for later. Do you want it in a different color?
