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#UPDATE FOR FAVICONOGRAPHER CODE#
#UPDATE FOR FAVICONOGRAPHER WINDOWS#

Favicons for websites you've never visited outside incognito mode will not be shown.Faviconographer currently only uses Favicons, not "touch icons" or Apple's SVG icon format for pinned tabs.

If Faviconographer does not work out of the box for you after enabling Accessibility, please reach out so we can figure out a solution :-)

Under High Sierra, one user had to delete their Safari preferences file to make Faviconographer work.

This is a limitation of Safari's AppleScript support in macOS 10.13 - it won't return URLs for tabs that have not yet been loaded. But for all new tabs, Favicons will be shown immediately.

Under High Sierra, if you restore a previous Safari session, Faviconographer can only show icons for restored tabs after you have clicked them at least once.

#UPDATE FOR FAVICONOGRAPHER WINDOWS#

When invoking the hotkey to show all application windows while in Safari, the Favicons stay floating in place.In the meantime, they just float in the wrong place. dragging tabs on the tab bar or moving/resizing the window, there is some delay before the Favicons update. There is a minimal delay when switching Safari windows.Faviconographer will only display icons for the currently active Safari window, and only while Safari is the frontmost app.In fact, it doesn't even require Administrator access! Limitations & Known Issues

#UPDATE FOR FAVICONOGRAPHER CODE#

It does not inject code into other apps or manipulate system files. Note: Faviconographer does not "hack" your system. It's a "hack" - the cleanest solution would be Apple implementing Favicons in Safari - but it works surprisingly well. It then uses that information to fetch the corresponding icons from Safari's Favicon cache ( WebpageIcons.db), and draws them above the Safari window. How it worksįaviconographer asks Safari.app for a list of all visible tabs (and their positions) in the current window, and for the URLs of those tabs. This helps you navigate between them more quickly. Speaking of new features - if you are looking for something like iOS 12's new Screen Time feature for your Mac, make sure to check out Timing.įaviconographer is a little utility that displays Favicons for the tabs you have opened in the current Safari window, just like almost every other browser does it. To enable Favicons in Safari 12, go to Preferences > Tabs, and check “Show website icons in tabs”. For bookmark Favicons, Mojave would still require significant changes that I don't have the resources for right now, so for the time being Faviconographer will not run on macOS Mojave. Note: Starting with Safari 12 on macOS Mojave, Safari supports Favicon drawing out of the box, so Faviconographer will be no longer necessary for tab Favicons.