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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?

com2kid 9y ago
> 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? For those of us with lots of tabs (e.g. more than a dozen), favicons are the only way to know what is in each tab. With only a letter or two showing, favicons are the only tab content identifier that exists.
- k_sh 9y ago
  This goes double for Safari, which filters out any text in tab names that is shared between two or more tabs.
- eridius 9y ago
  I normally group my windows by subject instead of having a bunch of completely unrelated tabs in a single window. You can also use Show All Tabs (⌘⇧\) to see all of the tabs in a window in a manner that shows you what each tab is (and also groups some tabs together, I think based on site, but I don't use it often enough to figure out the exact rules of when it groups tabs).
  - com2kid 9y ago
    A window for "things opened from hacker news" can quickly get to well over a dozen tabs. :)
pvinis 9y ago
I do a similar thing for Chrome. It's not so much the missing minor feature, as much as the way the dev/mgmt team works. If Safari refuses to have favicons, then they might think another important thing for you is not important for them. For me, I refuse to use Chrome because they don't want to put an option or allow extensions to remove the X button on the tabs. It's silly, I know. But I want it because I press it accidentally every now and then. I might be missing out on other features etc they have, but I want this small think that they don't want to have. It's about the principal. For me, and for many others, each with their own requirements.
rz2k 9y ago
There are a lot of reasons to choose Safari over Firefox, which I use most of the time. The visualization for swiping backwards is a little better, syncing tabs or handoff to an iPad or iPhone seems a little smoother than the Firefox version, the rendering may be a little faster, and I like the show all tabs button a lot. However, my favorites/bookmarks bar is a row of favicons. I feel like The first Macs and Apple IIc did a great job labeling hardware ports with good icons. You could quickly understand what they meant, and worked better than words for the labels. I don't understand why Apple has decided that favicons are such an abomination that using them for tiny buttons in the favorites bar isn't even an option hidden somewhere in a plist. Really, I just miss having favicons enough, that the advantages of Safari aren't enough to get me using it instead of Firefox.

com2kid 9y ago

> 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? For those of us with lots of tabs (e.g. more than a dozen), favicons are the only way to know what is in each tab. With only a letter or two showing, favicons are the only tab content identifier that exists.

k_sh 9y ago
This goes double for Safari, which filters out any text in tab names that is shared between two or more tabs.
eridius 9y ago
I normally group my windows by subject instead of having a bunch of completely unrelated tabs in a single window. You can also use Show All Tabs (⌘⇧\) to see all of the tabs in a window in a manner that shows you what each tab is (and also groups some tabs together, I think based on site, but I don't use it often enough to figure out the exact rules of when it groups tabs).
- com2kid 9y ago
  A window for "things opened from hacker news" can quickly get to well over a dozen tabs. :)

pvinis 9y ago

I do a similar thing for Chrome. It's not so much the missing minor feature, as much as the way the dev/mgmt team works. If Safari refuses to have favicons, then they might think another important thing for you is not important for them. For me, I refuse to use Chrome because they don't want to put an option or allow extensions to remove the X button on the tabs. It's silly, I know. But I want it because I press it accidentally every now and then. I might be missing out on other features etc they have, but I want this small think that they don't want to have. It's about the principal. For me, and for many others, each with their own requirements.

rz2k 9y ago

There are a lot of reasons to choose Safari over Firefox, which I use most of the time. The visualization for swiping backwards is a little better, syncing tabs or handoff to an iPad or iPhone seems a little smoother than the Firefox version, the rendering may be a little faster, and I like the show all tabs button a lot. However, my favorites/bookmarks bar is a row of favicons. I feel like The first Macs and Apple IIc did a great job labeling hardware ports with good icons. You could quickly understand what they meant, and worked better than words for the labels. I don't understand why Apple has decided that favicons are such an abomination that using them for tiny buttons in the favorites bar isn't even an option hidden somewhere in a plist. Really, I just miss having favicons enough, that the advantages of Safari aren't enough to get me using it instead of Firefox.