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Safari Gains Favicon Support in Tabs on iOS 12 and macOS Mojave

Never understood the obsession with tabs in web browsers. I use windows with Safari and Mission Control, such a breeze to navigate. Although, I do wish favicons weren't so buggy.
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shpankey said:
I use them in my favorites bar for quick reference to a bunch of sites. Basically favicon bookmarks. I didn't use Safari because they didn't use them on their bookmarks (at least on the bar) which required names instead, taking up too much space. Glad they're in again.
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Some websites don't even have favicons. What do you do about those?
 
Thank god we have icons now instead of the grey bleakness. Power use here with many tabs I quickly need to switch between so this is very welcome. This visually helps navigate better. Too many years have gone by without this feature other browsers have had.
 
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abhibeckert said:
Thank god it can be disabled.

The demo screenshot is unrealistic. In practice I always have so many tabs it's necessary to scroll to access all of them. The ones I can see are very short and the title is truncated. Having favicons would either mean worse truncation or less tabs can be visible without scrolling.
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I am curious as to why so many users keep dozens of tabs open. What's the point? I didn't 'tab browse' as a habit until maybe 2015—and, even then, I don't keep more than 2-3 open at a time (or 6-10 max when doing research).

No offense, but I just think that it's a dumb habit to overload on open tabs—much like it's a dumb habit to continuously hit 'Snooze' until it's been 2 hours since the initial alarm had gone off.
 
I picked up on this in the keynote thread and it seems others had missed it. But this is honestly going to make me use Safari a lot more. I’m a very visual person and being able to skim tabs for the icon I need is much faster for me.
 
Firstly, I don't use Safari anymore. It might be snappier ;) but since it's only available on Apple devices, it's a no go from the start. Safari used to be on Windows, but as I recall, it sucked.
Chrome is in my view unusable on mac, it's too hungry for resources.
Firefox has this strange idea that they won't do multi-language, and also their profile-stuff is really strangely designed.
So, for now I stick with Opera, works on all my devices, pretty fast, good syncing, useful features.
It does have support for favicons on tabs, not that I really could care less. It has built in adblocker and VPN service and a lot of other stuff I don't use.
I also agree with whoever said that using a lot of tabs is not useful. Macs has this wonderful possibility of many windows, and Apple made Exposé (long forgotten but still oddly supported, or hey, they changed it's name, hm, mission control?) to make it easy to use multiple windows.
 
I don't really think favicons was my deciding factor when it came to browser use. I think original reason was Chrome being faster around release at least, and Safari sometimes having problems with some websites. Now I use it because used to it, good plugin support and syncronized bookmarks & plugins over different platforms. (Logging over to bootcamp for example, going from home to work PC etc)
 
This is an advancement? Of all the things to work on, its really bizarre that this would get priority. Not incompatibility with some sites interfaces or video player playback inconsistencies. Weird.
 
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flyinmac said:
Glad Apple figured out how to do this. Always late to the party. But given enough time, Apple will get around to figuring out how to get where everybody else has been.
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And you can now sort Safari bookmarks on the Mac :rolleyes:
 
I think centering the text and icon looks weird - on all other browsers they are both left-aligned. I've been using Faviconographer for some time and it left-aligns the icons but keeps the text centered.

Oh well, I'll probably still use it - better native support than an accessibility hack.
 
I kinda got used to it but will still welcome it back. I just pin tabs if I really want an icon and makes 100+ tabs easy. I prefer chrome for speed and rendering of websites as there are occasional hiccups with safari and business sites that rely on odd and old tech.

You can’t beat having the choice of either though Mojave is going to lock down macOS so hard it won’t seem like choices exist.
 
Regardless of whether you like them or not; I can't believe this is headline news from WWDC! Has Apple progress really slowed so much that this is that significant?
 
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Not entirely sure why MacRumors even allows such a poorly written article to be published like this.

Safari has supported favicons since day one. The browser just doesn't display them on tabs. But they are being displayed in other places such as the address bar, bookmarks manager, menus, etc.

Weird the author is claiming Safari is lacking support altogether before macOS Mojave.
 
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I have been sending feedback reports to Apple like every year and now it's finally here.

It's just much easier and faster to differentiate between websites, if you have alot of tabs open. Once you get used to it, it's hard to live without it.

There's a reason we use traffic signs or App Icons instead of just text.


Guess i can finally give Safari another chance.
 
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bladerunner2000 said:
They JUST added favicon support? LOL @ Apple. Maybe next they can tackle a two button mouse?
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Why use a stupid mouse while there is the (Magic) trackpad which is insanely much better than a mouse.


As for the Favicons, I have them enabled now but don't see much use for them in Tabs, it would be for the bookmarks Toolbar yet it isn't implemented (AFAIK).
 
Safari was very slow consuming a lot of my processing power, switching to opera made everything feel sane again. The difference is overwhelming.

But its funny, online reviews said Safari was better.
 
Jesus, took them long enough. "Safari Gains Favicon Support in Tabs" reads like a news piece from the year 2005.
 
If they could turn off the long-freeze/redraw/unfreeze/apply-all-cached-trackpad-gestures thing that irritates the hell out of me when swiping back in various forums, then I'd go back to Safari from Firefox. I find sites like forums.digitalspy.com (UK forum on TV programmes) extremely irritating to use in Safari.

It's the only thing keeping me on Firefox. There are other nice things I get now, such as a very customisable minimalist layout, bookmark separators, very good cookie control etc but the only reason I moved to Firefox was the forum swipe-back cache thing. I used SafariStand (via SIMBL) to give me some neat features in Safari but I can live without those, and the hacks that SIMBL now requires to work.
 
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