With the recent update, I started noticing that Brave is setting the favicon of empty tabs to the Brave icon. How can I revert it back? I just want no icon for empty tabs. I use them as placeholders and as separators between different tabs. It becomes slightly difficult to spot the separators.
Brave v143.1.85.116
macOS 26.2
We have an issue open for this here that are developers are reviewing:
opened 08:09AM - 09 Dec 25 UTC
feature/new-tab
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
