Safari 9: Favicons on pinned tabs

[TwoBytes]

I'd like an option to switch the favicons on for ALL tabs. Also having them B&W doesn't help - another 'style over substance everything greyscale' Apple design flaw. Every other browser has a quick view look. Still, pinned tabs is a brilliant step in the right direction.

a quick glance and seeing "red blue yellow green, that's eBay" works more than B&W. Those colors instantly show you that you are bidding on a new car and have to lie to your wife. It doesn't work in B&W.

 

[Nozuka]

very disappointing.. was hoping i could finally switch to safari. but not without working favicons.

 

[applehound]

I completely disagree FWIW. I like being able to tell at a quick glance what a tab is without having to read its name.

I agree 100%. Apple's minimalism is great until it interferes with convenience. If you pin 5 or more tabs and some share the same letter, it's impossible to tell which is which. That's just silly.

 

[Almarma]

Another one here. No matter how minimalist or "clean" it looks on the Keynotes. A browser has to be useful, and the lack of favicons with their original colors is not only boring, but as many other say, makes it much harder to work with several tabs. Maybe for Johnny Ive, if he only uses it to read the NYT and his Pinterest, it's enough, but when one does research on the Internet, it's easy to end up with 15 or 20 tabs, if not more. To deal with that in Safari is simply horrible. In any other browser, it's really fast to group tabs visually just by the favicon.

When the design makes our lives easier, it's OK. When it makes them more difficult, it's a problem, no matter how "clean" it looks. "Clean" should not mean boring or useless in my opinion.