Since the last update, all the brave new tabs feature the brave logo as their favicon. Prior to this update, new tabs used no favicon. How to disable the brave logo favicon on new tabs? The new favicon makes it really hard to identify a new tab as such.
We have an issue open for this here:
opened 08:09AM - 09 Dec 25 UTC
design
design/needs-mock-up
QA/Yes
feature-request
OS/Desktop
### Description
Let's revert/adjust the new tab icon that was recently [introdu… ced](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/49614).
As you can see from that PR, many people are opposed to the change. It is too distracting, resembling a regular (used) tab.
It's doubly annoying if you browse https://community.brave.app/ which has the same favicon
### Steps to reproduce
Open a new tab
### Actual result
<img width="798" height="330" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/86c1e6f7-bad6-4a99-a7a3-1e37910647dd" />
### Expected result
<img width="888" height="302" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9a2421cb-9c15-4ce8-86e0-879ff6fde2c8" />
#### Alternative
If you insist on an icon, how about either:
- Greyed Brave icon
- Some grey plain world/tab symbol
### Brave version (brave://version info)
1.85.111 Chromium: 143.0.7499.40
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