My favourites Bar icons in Windows 11 are not coloured. How can I restore the colour.

Hi Wayne,

I'm Sumit, here to answer your query at the Microsoft Community.

Apologies for any inconvenience you are experiencing. We are happy to help you.

Sadly, the icons are taken from the website, so you can't customize them. If you open a favourite once, does it not change the color?

A screenshot would be super cool.

I look forward to hearing from you, and ready to work with you until we reach a solution.

I think the responder has misunderstood the question. The problems is not with the icons for each site in favourites. I have the same problem. The problem is with the folders on the favourites bar; in my case at the top of the screen. For some reason they have suddenly lost the yellow colouring, which most other windows 11 folders have, and are now just white.

The issue is that the folder icon has changed (on some PCs) from being yellow (which is how it has been since the launch of the new Edge):

to being transparent, and therefore much harder to see the icons:

Different PCs, same Windows 11 build and same build of Edge (131.0.2903.70 official build).

Is this being A/B testing or is this a problem on one PC?

Thanks for the response. I only have the one PC. So I am learning to live with the transparent icons in Edge.

Hi, I also got this bug now. I was watching a few super high-quality videos and my screen blacked out for a bit (videos were still running) so I closed them (and after closing the edge tabs with the videos, I ended the MS Edge task in Task Manager) and everything refreshed. All taskbar icons re-appeared everything went back to normal except for edge.

My favorite folder icons look without the yellow, and opening a new tab would sometimes not show the background image I have set (If I stop opening new tabs, the background shows up again after another attempt a few seconds later). I also notice a bit of lag in how pages load but seems to only last a bit when I open the browser or when it bugs the new tab and doesn't show the background.

I closed and re-opened the browser

I reset my PC

I ran the antivirus Malwarebytes (even though I knew that was just a memory crash due to high consumption but just in case) and nothing malicious was detected.

Even used the repair feature by going to apps and edge still has the new tab background and favorite folder icon problem.

Mind you every link inside each folder looks perfectly normal and still works just fine (except for some icons of links that are just images, they show like this instead of a blank page which is how it was before.)

Examples here: