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.
I get that you like favicons, but how is the lack of this one very minor feature something you consider a complete roadblock to using the browser as a whole?
One person (or a small group of people) wanting something very, very badly does not necessarily mean it's the right thing to do for the product. It's an interesting data point, but far from definitive and taking it as such would be terrible product management. We have no way to know whether they "wonder why it's not directly included" or have considered doing it and decided not to.
It's pretty common that some software removes a feature, an extension or alternative is created to mimic the feature, and then over time the extension dies. I chalk it up to human attachment to workflows.
Usually, when some Apple UI component baffles me, I find it's because they and I assumed different things about how the work should be done--so the friction disappears when I step back and figure out what the devs were thinking.
In this case, I think they believe the task of reviewing all open pages, and of finding a specific page that is neither nearby nor recent, are unsuited to the tab bar and better done with the Show All Tabs screen.
I suggest you force yourself to rely on Show All Tabs for a week, then reevaluate.
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.
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.
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?
ArmandGrillet|8 years ago
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.
eridius|8 years ago
zippergz|8 years ago
twhb|8 years ago
Usually, when some Apple UI component baffles me, I find it's because they and I assumed different things about how the work should be done--so the friction disappears when I step back and figure out what the devs were thinking.
In this case, I think they believe the task of reviewing all open pages, and of finding a specific page that is neither nearby nor recent, are unsuited to the tab bar and better done with the Show All Tabs screen.
I suggest you force yourself to rely on Show All Tabs for a week, then reevaluate.
redial|8 years ago
And after all, there is Chrome, Firefox, and many others that do have them for the ones that find them useful.
biftek|8 years ago
saagarjha|8 years ago
pvg|8 years ago
https://github.com/logandaniels/emoji-tab-icons
TheCoreh|8 years ago