Had to browse to https://www.google.com/favicon.ico to actually see it on Google's homepage since I'm using Google over https. I tried hard refresh and it didn't change until I browsed to the https version of the new favicon.
The new favicon is a white letter "g" on blue ground. If anyone, like me, is wondering, you can initiate a "hard refresh" by holding down shift while clicking on the reload button in Chrome (or, I assume, Firefox). Doing so circumvents all caching inside your browser.
different image (favicon is a g centered, this is a g on the
left hand side)
I like it that they went (back to/for) this version. The earlier one had absolutely no taste, IMHO.
The change hasn't happened yet on google.no.
is it me or this (and it's not the only thing in recent Google design tweaks/refreshes) is quite "[formerly-known-as] Metro" ? Flatter, less colors, more minimal... (not complaining, just wondering)
48x48? Is that a retina thing? Didn't know you could do that.