FavIcon integrated editor

Problem: I want a web browser plug-in that can edit the FavIcon for my bookmarks.

Solution: Build one.

There exist dozens of online FavIcon editors on the web. The FavIcon is the small graphic in the corner of the address book; the one for this site looks like this .  Some tools, like FavIcon Picker 2 let bookmarks be reduced to just the icon, making a compact tool bar of bookmarks. Unfortunately, not every site has a favorite icon, and different services help on the same favorite icon. For example, Google, Google (Linux) search, and Google Analytics have the same favicon.  I want to make my own icon as a minor variation of the single standard icon.  Alternately, I want to make dirt simple favicons for sites that have none.

My feature list for such a program would include:

• Take an existing favicon and alter the colors.  The red “G” might be search, the “blue” might be analytics.
• Add a letter overlay onto existing favicons, so my “Google Linux” button has an “L” on it.
• Create a one or two character favicon so that the cool Widgets site with no icon could get a “red Wi” favicon in my bookmarks.

None of this is particularly odd or difficult.  It’s a matter of a GUI front end, some data files, and some shelling out to ImageMagick to do the actual work.  Hmm….