Popup with text instead of icons (only)

[clackwell]

I have several URLs from the same server so the favicon does not help distinguish them, I need to hover and wait for the tooltip to tell which of the icons to click. Creating custom icons seems cumbersome. Could you add an option to use a text based popup instead? I shortly glanced and tinkered with the respective code, but had it fall apart on me, likely because my attempt was too ignorant of the surrounding code or even plain HTML rules.

[CanisLupus]

Hello! That's a nice suggestion. :) Maybe allow a few customizable letters to be set to appear instead of the icon URL. It could even choose a random background color and the first letter of the search engine name by default (like some messaging apps do), though this would be more work, of course.

I must probably apologize in advance because this will likely take some time to get implemented! I haven't had much time recently and there are quite a few things on the list of issues already. Thankfully almost all are suggestions for new features and not bugs. :)

Either way, the idea is nice and I'll let you know when I can do something about it.

Cheers, Daniel

[ghost]

It's quite easy in fact to translate an image icon to its base64 equivalent.

• Find/create a 16*16 wide png image,
• Head over to a site such as Base64 image encoder decoder,
• Drag/drop your image there, then click on 'Encode',
• At the bottom of the page, copy the code in the 'Browser View' box,
• In SSS' options, paste the above code in the 'Icon link' box of your search engine.

It's really a breeze with SSS.

[CanisLupus]

Thanks for the suggestion, @mazesy! That is a useful way to use an image coming from your computer, since SSS doesn't support that directly. :)

For people that don't like having to search for icons or create them, the topic still applies hehe.