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For every other application package I've looked at, there's a Paste option available in Edit menu after selecting the icon in "Get Info" dialog. For Google Chrome, there isn't.

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Why is that (i.e. is Chrome blocking the change somehow)? How can I get around this and change the icon? I'm sure there are apps for handling this, is there a way to do it without one?

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    Because of how Chrome updates, you will have to do this over and over again. Each time it pushes an update to you, it overwrites the old icon too.
    – jmlumpkin
    Apr 28, 2011 at 12:06
  • Select the icon instead, and you will be able to paste. See apple.stackexchange.com/questions/169721/… for instructions. @jmlumpkin The benefit of this method is that Google Chrome will not overwrite this setting because Google Chrome only modifies the binary and framework, not the top Contents/ folder this icon is stored in.
    – Joy Jin
    Feb 5, 2021 at 6:28

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Right click on the package, "show package content", then go in the "ressources" folder and change the icon there. The icon file is the .icns file.

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  • Thanks. Could you be please more specific on how and what to change? I've figured it out, but your answer seems incomplete this way.
    – Martin Tóth
    Apr 28, 2011 at 9:05
  • Like that or more ?
    – Cedric H.
    Apr 28, 2011 at 9:08
  • By the way, I had to remove Chrome from Dock and put it back there to make the new icon appear in Dock (finder showed new icon right after I've changed the icns file).
    – Martin Tóth
    Apr 28, 2011 at 9:12
  • More, I guess, mention what icns files are there, how to edit them perhaps?
    – Martin Tóth
    Apr 28, 2011 at 9:15
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    @Martin you will always have to do that anyway, or in the terminal type: "killall Dock" to restart the Dock, because it keeps a cached copy of the icon.
    – Martin Marconcini
    Apr 28, 2011 at 13:38
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  • "Show Package Contents", Contents, Resources
  • Replace app.icns with a new icon set
  • Go to a Terminal and do touch /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/ and killall Dock

Voilà

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