diff --git a/rhodecode/templates/base/root.html b/rhodecode/templates/base/root.html
--- a/rhodecode/templates/base/root.html
+++ b/rhodecode/templates/base/root.html
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
         <title>${self.title()}</title>
         <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
         <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow"/>
-        <link rel="icon" href="${h.url('/images/icons/database_gear.png')}" type="image/png" />
+        <link rel="icon" href="${h.url('/images/favicon.ico')}" type="image/png" />
 
         ## CSS ###
         <%def name="css()">