Facebook Makes Subtle Updates to Application Canvas Pages
March 18th, 2009
| By Justin Smith | 1 Comment » |
From the “developer tidbits” department, over the last few days Facebook has made a couple of subtle changes to the design of the application canvas page.
Now, when Facebook users are engaging with Platform applications:
- Application favicons are used instead of the Facebook favicon
- The title of the page has changed to “[application name] on Facebook” instead of “Facebook | [application name]“
Here’s how the new browser tabs (and bookmarks) look:


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March 20th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
“Application favicons are used instead of the Facebook favicon”
I have an issue with this. It changes my Firefox Bookmarks Favicon at will. If I want to to go to Facebook, I have to look for a different Favicon because the default Facebook one has been replaced. It reverts back when I go to the facebook home page.
Just a bit of an oddity