Yosemite Safari 8 needs fav icons

[hemanwomanhater]

SafariStand works. Former user of Glims but that project appears to be dead or something.

The one thing I'd really love to have is the ability to suppress the minimum tab width so we can see more (which was a feature in Glims). SafariStand's "Suppress tab bar width" seems like it should do that but I honestly don't see what it does.

It's a shame that Safari simply doesn't provide options for these, but I still can't don't find Chrome as usable.

 

[TwoBytes]

Mailed safari stand Dev before Xmas a couple of times and looks like that's stopped too! Haven't seen and update since November

 

[skiffx]

Shame the suppress the bar width doesnt work like it used to in Glims...How in the world did Apple think that scrolling through is easier than having all tabs displayed so you can just pick the ones you want instantly ....

 

[TwoBytes]

Safaristand is broken with the latest 10.10.2 release

I've emailed the dev and even asked for getting 80 tabs on one page without scrolling. No reply. Can anyone speak Japanese here that can mail him/her?

 

[Yptcn]

There is an update to Safaristand , just download and install it and it will work again

Ooops , it doesn't seem to be an update , sorry ! Anyway , I reinstalled it and it work fine .

 

[TwoBytes]

10.10.1 turns off easysimbl so make sure you turn it on again
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Quoting myself!

Your right. Just need to re-enable easy simbl and Safari stand works again

 

[Dameatball]

(NB I could be wrong as I haven't used Safari 8 admittedly)

I'm a power user with loads of tabs open that I need open whenever I use safari. I use glims as it does two things

-has favicons on the tab menu so you can easily see what tab is what

-squashes the tabs together to keep all the tabs in one window and shorten long webpage names
(picture attached)


Again, apple have taken design over usability and done this

Grey, empty, not as useable. Just like the vast amounts of white apple put into iOS 7. Now you have to constantly scroll and can't just LOOK at safari having all the tab in front of you. It's like Apple want people to scroll all the time with no reason but for images to look good in press shots. Look at the notification centre with iOS 7? If you're calendar has a few things in it, you have to scroll up and down. In iOS 6, it showed you everything on one page!

Having some colour with the fav icons really makes safari more usable. oh dear, it doesn't look Apple but I want to browse, not look pretty (or empty grey!). It also looks like you can't see the full URL anymore for longer naming.

poweruser and chrome are contradicting. Chrome is a bloated, slow resource hog and generally a bad browser all the way around. Google started with something solid and totally ruined it. I personally would rather use something fast, light with little overhead (even if it's dull like safari). If you want all the extensions etc, I would definitely recommend using opera over chrome. You can even use the chrome web store with it.

 

[Dameatball]

Mailed safari stand Dev before Xmas a couple of times and looks like that's stopped too! Haven't seen and update since November

developer for safari stand is very active, and has been for some time. She even has a web page now for the extension: http://hetima.com/safaristand/
IMO a must have for safari users.

 

[TwoBytes]

the current version of safari stand is buggy - it makes safari not load pages and you often have to refresh pages which is a big PITA.

El capitan has a in built feature which is brilliant! for pinned tabs but shame they didn't include an on/off switch for ALL tabs to have favicons! See pic below
We're halfway there and because Apple included favicon, it makes me really excited about the OS update

 

[pedro_martins]

Yeah but it is really THAT much of a must have feature? I understand why it took so long, since I think they are focussing in all the right things with Safari.

 

[TwoBytes]

Stability and all the usual stuff etc etc, blah blah are all imprortant, but hey, this is macrumors and this is Apple where we want to focus on usability and features that make the app useable! The little things have made Apple what it is today.

Read through the thread - power users, multi tabbed browsing and quickly using the browser are all key features of making a good browser in my opinion. Ease of use is big part of browser design and I think safari needs icons to get with the rest of the crowd.

 

[Dameatball]

the current version of safari stand is buggy - it makes safari not load pages and you often have to refresh pages which is a big PITA.

El capitan has a in built feature which is brilliant! for pinned tabs but shame they didn't include an on/off switch for ALL tabs to have favicons! See pic below
We're halfway there and because Apple included favicon, it makes me really excited about the OS update

1st- it hasn't been updated in a long time, 2nd- it's broken and now 3rd- it's buggy?
Safari Stand is as stable as can be. Hetima always has updates going out and it's never failed me in any way.
Easy Simbl is broken with 10.4, but you don't need it for SS. Hetima updated it so it works with Simbl.

 

[TwoBytes]

I'm not sure if you're summary takes into the consideration of the posts spanning over months. My experience is the current version is buggy but then again, you have no other choice if you want favicons. I'm glad you have a different experience.

 

[Dameatball]

sorry if my response sounded short; wasn't my intention.
What I meant to say was safari stand should theoretically be pretty stable; particularly when not using easy simbl.
curious, did you remove the script per the SS instructions?
http://hetima.com/safaristand/

 

[TwoBytes]

It's ok, it's a forum

I removed the scripts. I'm a heavy tab user. Maybe I get more issues with reloads