--- a/mobile/android/base/java/org/mozilla/gecko/widget/FaviconView.java
+++ b/mobile/android/base/java/org/mozilla/gecko/widget/FaviconView.java
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 /* -*- Mode: Java; c-basic-offset: 4; tab-width: 20; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*-
 /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
  * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
  * You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
 
 package org.mozilla.gecko.widget;
 
 import android.graphics.Color;
+import android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatImageView;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.R;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.icons.IconCallback;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.icons.IconResponse;
 
 import android.content.Context;
 import android.content.res.Resources;
 import android.content.res.TypedArray;
 import android.graphics.Bitmap;
@@ -26,17 +27,17 @@ import android.widget.ImageView;
 
 import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
 
 /**
  * Special version of ImageView for favicons.
  * Displays solid colour background around Favicon to fill space not occupied by the icon. Colour
  * selected is the dominant colour of the provided Favicon.
  */
-public class FaviconView extends ImageView {
+public class FaviconView extends AppCompatImageView {
 
     // Default x/y-radius of the oval used to round the corners of the background (dp)
     private static final int DEFAULT_CORNER_RADIUS_DP = 2;
 
     /**
      * True if we're capable of, and want to, display an image, false otherwise. This acts as a switch: if we
      * don't want to show an image, most other state will be ignored because we don't need it to draw.
      *