title: How to change default favicon icon in angular 2 app?
body: <ul>
  <li>os: win32 x64</li>
  <li>angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.22-1</li>
  <li>node: 7.1.0</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Repro steps.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Remove the line </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico"&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>from index.html</p></li>
  <li>ng build</li>
  <li>ng serve</li>
  <li>browse through <a href="http://localhost:4200/" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost:4200/</a> </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>It still shows the default angular favicon.
  Also tried the above steps after clearing the browser cache and still the same issue.</p>
  
  <p>Below browser are used to reproduced the issue:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Chrome(Version 54.0.2840.99 m)</li>
  <li>IE(Version 11.0.98600.18499)</li>
  </ul>