Disabling the brave logo favicon on new tabs

Mattches · December 9, 2025, 9:27pm

We have an issue open for this here:

Adjust new tab favicon

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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Disabling the brave logo favicon on new tabs

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