You’ll need to save them somewhere, and manually choose the icon path in the Change Icon screen. To change the icon, simply right-click the shortcut icon to Chrome and select Change Icon. Now that you’ve added the shortcut to your taskbar, you can customize it to display the golden Google Chrome icon you want. If you want to download all of the icons, including the blue Chromium icon, you can do so from the following link. Does anyone know where these small brown box icons came from and what they mean I suddenly have these little brown icons (looks like a small file box) on. Once you’ve added the shortcut, click on the desktop icon and drag it to the desired location. Update: yes, the gold icon is from the Canary build, but most people don’t realize that it’s stored in the executable file for the regular version too. To pin yours, just un-pin the one you have now, and then swap out the icon in the shortcut, and right-click and choose Pin to Taskbar. The gold icon looks pretty sweet when you pin it to the Windows 7 taskbar as well… Inside the Change Icon dialog you’ll find a bunch of icons-sadly, the other 3 are low-resolution icons, but you can switch to the gold one from here. Enabling the Hidden Gold IconĪll you have to do is open up the shortcut Properties screen and head to Change Icon. If you’re wondering how we got the smooth icon you’re seeing above, it’s because the latest dev channel version switched the icon from the older style.

You might not realize this, but there’s actually another icon hidden inside the Google Chrome executable file-and it’s a high-quality version of the same logo, but golden.

Golden google chrome icon