Comments on: Google Chrome: How to Change Icons on the Bookmarks bar

By: TKR

TKR — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:49:47 +0000

Thanks planetstrider, this did the trick!

By: Zachary M Vogt

Zachary M Vogt — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:04:30 +0000

I had the same problem. I was able to use the instructions on this page to query/update the History database, and it appeared to work at first, but on subsequent visits to the urls, the icons would just get reset to a value that was rendered as a generic page icon. I did notice that the blank icons that I wanted to replace were non-zero values. If you want to change a non-zero generic icon, query the History data base to get the favicon_id values for the value you want to replace and the value you want to use in its place. Then open the Thumbnails database and execute something like:
update favicons
set image_data = (select image_data
from favicons
where id = )
where id =

That worked for me and so far seems to be more permanent.

By: Turan Rustamli

Turan Rustamli — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:04:34 +0000

ok, I had the same problem. There is no "starred_id'..
but I found the the way to change bookmark icon.

All I wanted was add icon to "Add to Delicious" Bookmark. So I visited Delicious' main page to make Chrome add a record about it to his history. Then I found that record and replaced it's url (http://delicious.com) with my bookmark's url (javascript:(function(){f='http://delicious.com/save?url='+en ... ). And that's all.

By: lostntaiwan

lostntaiwan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:58:21 +0000

I can't see the starred_id column.
I have tried several ways but no matter what I can't see it. Is there another way to do this?

By: ein*1

ein*1 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:31:17 +0000

Same for me. No table names are available in the drop down list after loading the history file. I am using Google Chrome 2.0.172.33.

By: RBL

RBL — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:21:38 +0000

Doesn't work on production release. Loading History file displays no data.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:07:01 +0000

This is lovely, but is there anyway to change individual folder icons? I make extensive use of folders.

By: iconless in wisconsin

iconless in wisconsin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:25:34 +0000

Hi, I did everything as mentioned and the icons in my bookmark bar were changed to the ones I wanted. I thought it was great until I clicked on those links and when the page loaded, the favicon went blank again. I can go back and successfully change them back, but I always lose them once the page loads. Any suggestions on how to keep the changes permanent?

By: planetstrider

planetstrider — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:13:47 +0000

I have been able to do it^^ this way don't need the sterred_id but it's the way by force.

First, You should close Google Chrome before doing Step4 because the table doesn't appear if Google Chrome is opening.

Next, if you can see the tables, you do Step 6.(select urls)
You select the unnecessary record for you in the urls tables.(e.g. Google search result URLs)

Finally, you change the url cell's value and favicon_id cell's value to your URL (I changed it to the bookmarklet URLs) and your favicon_id (You'll get it in Step 7).

Probably, you can see your favicon in Chrome.
Good luck.
Thanx:)

ps: I'm a Japanese so I'm not good at English

By: N1cks

N1cks — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:14:02 +0000

Yeah, same deal for me.
Could it have something to with the fact Chrome is now out of beta….