So many problems

[tylola]

• Clicking on the gear would not open the favicon tool. Had to uninstall and reinstall
• Click on favicon tool tab, click on add link and nothing happens. Have to open a new tab. Happened repeatedly.
• Large version of Favicons are too big, causing images to pixelate.
• Icons are too close to each other. They need a little elbow room.
• But here's the fatal flaw. I had used the option to put text next an icon, then tried to move another icon next to the one that had text. Instead of doing that, it replaced ALL of my newly updated entries in the favicon bar – twice. I gave up after the second attempt. And there does not appear to be a way to fix it. Grrr. Look, I love favicon favorites bars. It's one of the main reasons I continued using Firefox until recently. But I can't spend an hour setting this thing up, only to have it trashed by a mistake in the code – twice.

[neo-neo1]

I may be wrong but with the last update 2-3 years ago, I deemed this project abandoned. I used and loved this extension when it's development was active and bugs were fixed. Now, it seems we are yelling into the wind. Unless of course you are running an unuqdated of Safari (and likely Mac OS X too).

[popcornhax]

@tylola I'm not seeing the first two issues you outlined, what versions are you running on? Pixelated favicons would be limited only to the size of the source image. If it's a low res icon it will show up as pixelated. Faviconbar tries to pick the best icon but that picker has been broken (issue #49) Thanks for the other issue report, that's the first I've heard of something like that - but I don't use text with my icons so it probably needs more testing.

[popcornhax]

@ps2wiz The criticism that the extension hasn't been updated is valid. I wrote the majority of the current version of the extension and I have not made many changes/fixes since it got to a stable state. That said most of the bugs that have been reported, while valid, have been what I'd consider minor.

The major issue, that I can not correct is that Apple has removed the ability to load extensions such as FaviconBar. Safari can't load a downloaded extension because it's "unsafe", and extensions in the App Store do not allow toolbars.

So if we do update the extension, the only way to load it is via a developer method (which is outlined in issue #56 - I expect it will only be a matter of time until that is removed also. So I believe FaviconBar is probably living on borrowed time.

[tylola]

I'm running Mojave (Safari 12.0). I don't understand why Apple doesn't build this into the app themselves now that they are allowing icons on the tabs.  Thanks for the reply. Maybe I'll give it another try.  On Saturday, November 3, 2018, 2:41:52 PM EDT, db [email protected] wrote:

@ps2wiz The criticism that the extension hasn't been updated is valid. I wrote the majority of the current version of the extension and I have not made many changes/fixes since it got to a stable state. That said most of the bugs that have been reported, while valid, have been what I'd consider minor.

The major issue, that I can not correct is that Apple has removed the ability to load extensions such as FaviconBar. Safari can't load a downloaded extension because it's "unsafe", and extensions in the App Store do not allow toolbars.

So if we do update the extension, the only way to load it is via a developer method (which is outlined in issue #56 - I expect it will only be a matter of time until that is removed also. So I believe FaviconBar is probably living on borrowed time.

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