It shouldn’t be Google’s responsibility to pick up the slack for lazy devs, but if it makes the Chromebook experience better, I say they should consider it. If the company dug into Google image search and crawled for icon images using the websites, and in instances where they didn’t exist – keywords, it could potentially fill these out automatically for the user and for the developers across Chrome and Chrome OS. I say simple, but I know it wouldn’t come to fruition without some hard work. I’m sure Google is working on a fix for this, but I think the solution could be simple. I’m not entirely certain which icon image these developers are failing to upload to their websites, and if you do know, please tell me in the comments, but it’s hideous, and it needs to stop. I’ve seen intermittent instances where this did not happen after a new device set up, but I think it was a while back and only on Chrome OS Canary. I just powerwashed this Pixelbook Go and placed it back in Chrome OS Stable. While many of them have retained theirs and they feel like traditional apps sitting right there in my collection, many others suffer from the aforementioned generic icon issue.

Instead, I have a mix of standard and progressive web apps – all of which had icons prior to a powerwash. If you look at the images below, you’ll notice that I have zero Google Play Android apps installed.

My google chrome icon looks different