Sometimes we all wish to have a different icon for a folder, file type or application. And there are plenty of places to download them (like InterfaceLIFT ) but how to install them ? The answer is – easy.

Let’s have a look at my dock, the colour of the Firefox default icon just doesn’t fit in there. How about something blue ?

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To change this we firstly need an icon. I downloaded icon from InterfaceLIFT and placed it onto my desktop. Now we open Finder, go to Applications and find Firefox. Right click on the icon and select Get Info. This will open the following window.

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Now we need to go back to desktop and right click the icon we downloaded and select Copy.

Back to the Firefox info window where we need to click the Firefox icon once (left click). The icon will be selected and will have small shadow behind although barely visible.

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All you need to do now is to paste your new icon, simply key in Command-V on your keyboard and you get this.

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Now my dock looks a whole lot prettier.

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