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Google Finance favicon clobbers Google favicon

Project Member Reported by tommycli@chromium.org, Sep 12

Issue description

Kevin Bailey discovered this very interesting bug.

Repro steps:
 1. Go to https://www.google.com/search?q=msft&tbm=fin
 2. Wait for the page to load and the finance favicon to show on the tab.
 3. Open a new tab page and start typing a search query.
 4. The Google search icon may now show the Google Finance icon.

I think the root cause is that the URL looks pretty much identical to a plain Google search, and is matching the default search provider.

Once the favicon loads on the Finance page, Chrome thinks: "Looks like Google got a new favicon with a graph. Let me update my default search provider metadata."

In fact... that above page also triggers Query in Omnibox, since it looks like a Google Search Query.

One possibility: Could we / should we update our TemplateURL system to exclude or distinguish these Google scoped searches?
 
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Cc: -kbr@chromium.org k...@chromium.org
All of the other Google search modes offer up the same G icon, so I think we should ask Search if they'd be willing to do the same thing for Finance.
pkasting: But I'd also be interested to know if you have any thoughts on tommycli's question ("Could we / should we update our TemplateURL system to exclude or distinguish these Google scoped searches?"). If it was possible to do this without a big effort, it would help in other ways such as "query in omnibox".
I don't see an easy way to handle this.
I'm hitting this too. Looks like these were added in b/112206374
In  Issue 88243 , we decided to update the favicon metadata of the default search provider as the user browses.

But alternatively:
 - We could not do that and industriously keep the Chrome hardcoded list up to date.

 - Or we should ship hardcoded PNGs for Chrome's top 5 search providers.

These two both seem unpalatable to me, but I'm mentioning them as alternatives (that we've previously rejected).
Cc: pkotw...@chromium.org
I just came across this as well by visiting finance.google.com (which redirects to https://www.google.com/search?stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPQeMSozC3w8sc9YSmpSWtOXmMU4RJyy8xLzEtO9UnMS8nMSw9ITE_lAQCCiJIYKAAAAA&q=finance&tbm=fin&gws_rd=ssl).  Looks like you can reset the omnibox to the usual "G" by doing a non-finance search.

Adding pkotwicz@ for favicon knowledge, in case he has thoughts on this.

Owner: tommycli@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Available)
tommycli: please track the internal request to have Finance change their favicon and resolve this issue if and when they do.
Status: Fixed (was: Assigned)
Finance team changed the icon a few weeks ago.

I just tested it and it is working correctly on my machine.

I'm marking Fixed. This bug is ready for verification.

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