showing website icons in tabs

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showing website icons in tabs #1078

Open rajktech opened 4 years ago

rajktech commented 4 years ago

Min shows website title in tabs. It does not show icons of website.

bates64 commented 4 years ago

Possibly worth considering multiple options for favicons:

No favicons (current behaviour)
Standard favicons
Mask favicons where supported (see Apple's mask-icon meta tag)

PalmerAL commented 4 years ago

I'm not convinced it makes sense to support this, because icons take up a lot of space, can be distracting, and probably aren't compatible with the current system of making the tab bar color match the site (since making the icon visible against arbitrary backgrounds is difficult).

The mask icon thing is interesting, although I don't have much of an idea of how widely supported it is.

Nesaijn commented 4 years ago

I like the idea of having icons on the tabs. For me it makes it easier and faster to recognize what tab is for which site. Relating the issue with space, instead of naming the domain on the tab, you could show the icon which would probably even lead to less space taken.