A few weeks ago John Gruber wrote a blog post about how Safari should display favicons in tabs. I agree. It would make it so much easier to identify and navigate between open tabs.
Daniel Alm, the developer of Timing, thinks so too. This week he released Faviconographer an app with the single purpose of adding favicons to tabs in Safari for Mac.
I’ve installed the app on my iMac and MacBook and it’s working as expected.
I have a mid-2015 15' Retina MBP with 16Gb RAM and 1Tb OWC Aura SSD, External LG monitor and High Sierra 10.13.3. Of late I have been getting kernel panics saying that the system cannot read a SATA drive. Faviconer is for creating favicons for websites (the site icon you see in browsers' favorites). The app is simple and intuitive. You just need to select the source image, choose the required icon size, click a button, and the favicon is ready.
You can learn more about how Faviconographer works and download it here. It’s also free.
Daniel Alm (developer of the excellent time-tracking app Timing):
Faviconographer asks Safari.app for a list of all visible tabs(and their positions) in the current window, and for the URLs ofthose tabs.
It then uses that information to fetch the corresponding iconsfrom Safari’s Favicon cache (WebpageIcons.db), and draws themabove the Safari window.
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It’s a “hack” — the cleanest solution would be Apple implementingFavicons in Safari — but it works surprisingly well.
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Note: Faviconographer does not “hack” your system. It does not inject code into other apps or manipulate system files. In fact, it doesn’t even require Administrator access!
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Daniel sent me a beta of this a few weeks ago, and I was dubious, to say the least. But it really does work surprisingly well. It’s not as good as true per-tab favicon support in Safari would be, but it’s closer than you think. And, importantly, it really is a clean hack, insofar as it doesn’t inject code or anything like that. And it’s free. If you use Safari you should try it.
Faviconographer For Mac: Free Download + Review [Latest Version]
★ Monday, 11 September 2017