It was before some time ago, like years ago, but it's the fastest now, I have plenty of others on my Mac and Safari is the fastest.
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Safari Gains Favicon Support in Tabs on iOS 12 and macOS Mojave
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It was before some time ago, like years ago, but it's the fastest now, I have plenty of others on my Mac and Safari is the fastest.
Tabs are the only place they are required. Without them, the tab bar is one long grey blur and requires reading each title to see what the tab is. It's literally the only reason why I don't use Safari.
These comments blow my mind. I have been reading so many complaints about missing favicons for years, and now this article attracts everybody who doesn't want them. I suppose you all use a blank keyboard too?
Is anyone gonna tell him Apple already have a two button mouse?
It's always crazy when people bring up things they've probably conditioned themselves to use over the years.
Have you also stopped using finder since they grayscaled all the icons in there? I used to click on the right folder without searching, now I need to stare at the sidebar, just to know which icon is which and since xtrafinder doesn’t seem to be working (installation fails) it bothers me to no end
many "new features" in MacOS or iOS were available for a while, then removed, then brought back with HIGH PRAISE
LMAO!!! Welcome to the Apple era of sexy hardware and crappy outdated firmware. "Cutting edge FW? We don't need no stinking cutting edge FW!" For the Millennials reading this, that reference is way older than you, so web search on "Blazing Saddles"...
Favicons or no favicons, I find tab labels are mostly useless when the number of open pages exceeds two.
I prefer to use Safari's Read Later feature instead. I leave its menu open on the left. It has way more identifying detail: page subject/article title, domain name, and a thumbnail illustration.
I believe Omni Group's OmniWeb browser had a similar solution for tabs.
I prefer to use Safari's Read Later feature instead. I leave its menu open on the left. It has way more identifying detail: page subject/article title, domain name, and a thumbnail illustration.
I believe Omni Group's OmniWeb browser had a similar solution for tabs.
The reason why they were hesitant to put favicons on tabs is fairly obvious. They're ugly and they take up a lot of space.
So they became suddently pretty now?
[doublepost=1528295728][/doublepost]As always a big iNovation, I hope other browsers follow this new favicon trend too
It's interesting that you point that out, as I have never really had an issue with the b/w finder icons.
I suppose just having the icons at all, even without the colour, is enough for me with finder. I spend the majority of my time selecting files in the source code editor/ide so that may be why.
A lot of articles here misstate facts or otherwise confuse issues. Several of us have pointed out the mistake in this one already. The result is that the vast majority of the comments in the discussion treat the factual error as truth. A simple clarification or correction in the article would be the right response, but as regular MR readers know, this only rarely happens.
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Required? Only place? Maybe you don't use your browsing history, bookmarks, or watch list. That's the only reason why I can imagine anyone would make such an odd statement.
Rarely do here. I suppose when you have enough tabs and leave them up, its like a living history anyway. Welcome change here, but yes it does look less elegant.
Anyone who thinks Apple never noticed that Safari didn't show favicons on tabs, or is too dumb, slow, or incompetent to add favicons to tabs clearly doesn't know how they operate.
It was a clear and conscious decision on Apple's part to not show favicons on tabs. You can either like or dislike that decision, but it was a decision, not just them being late to the game. I find it interesting that many people are glad to hear you can still disable those icons, yet, we never hear anyone complaining that they cannot be disabled in other browsers. Like, when will Google "FINALLY" get with the program, and realize that many people would rather not see them? The logic flows both ways. I'll probably try them for a while, but I'll likely leave them turned off in the long run. I find them a bit garish and distracting.
It was a clear and conscious decision on Apple's part to not show favicons on tabs. You can either like or dislike that decision, but it was a decision, not just them being late to the game. I find it interesting that many people are glad to hear you can still disable those icons, yet, we never hear anyone complaining that they cannot be disabled in other browsers. Like, when will Google "FINALLY" get with the program, and realize that many people would rather not see them? The logic flows both ways. I'll probably try them for a while, but I'll likely leave them turned off in the long run. I find them a bit garish and distracting.
Does this mean the Apple minimalist police might allow COLOR back into the finder Sidebar as well?? One could almost hope this is the first wave from some brave soul inside Apple trying to bring life and color back to some of the these oh-too-subtle monochromatic windows in mourning... Finder needs to come back to the land of the living. My rant from 10.7