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Faviconographer – Favicons for Your Safari Tabs

by attheodo on 9/11/17, 2:44 PM with 16 comments

• by ArmandGrillet on 9/11/17, 6:46 PM

  If developers are doing all this work just to get a feature back, I wish some people at Apple will wonder why it's not directly included.

  I've contacted Safari devs and even created a bug report (marked as a duplicate a few days later) about that issue. The lack of an option to display favicons in Safari is incomprehensible, this small feature makes me unable to consider this browser as something else than the one I use to watch Apple keynotes.

• by redial on 9/11/17, 8:13 PM

  I might be in the minority, but I really enjoy the fact there are no favicons in Safari, the cleaner looks really help the content of the current page stand out more.

  And after all, there is Chrome, Firefox, and many others that do have them for the ones that find them useful.

• by saagarjha on 9/11/17, 6:40 PM

  Cool. One bug I found: if you click on a link and it opens in a new tab, it will use the favicon from the previous tab even if the new tab has a different favicon.

• by pvg on 9/11/17, 5:55 PM

  Someone posted a less intrusive extension hack (which also doesn't use real favicons) a while back:

  https://github.com/logandaniels/emoji-tab-icons

• by TheCoreh on 9/11/17, 10:20 PM

  This is really neat! However, since there's a slight delay whenever moving the safari window, would you consider having they only show up while a key is being held? Like option or command?