Favicons

[Tomadelostacos]

Hello, is there something planned for the favicons in the tabs ?

[PalmerAL]

Duplicate of #304.

In general, I think favicons would be kind of distracting, and it's also going to be difficult to find a way to do it that looks good, since tabs can have any possible color as their background (unless we wanted to remove that), but I can see how it would be nice to have a way to identify tabs more quickly. Maybe something where a portion of the tab uses the theme color for that page?

[Tomadelostacos]

Yep, i personally identify my tabs with favicons in Opera, so that i instantly know in which website i'm gonna go when clicking, it's annoying (for me) if i have to read all labels beginnings when choosing a tab.
Maybe having a little div at the left of every tab, a square with a dark grey background, hideable, could allow users to have favicons and to identify even more tabs ?

[PalmerAL]

That's true, I guess if there was a background behind the favicon, it could be arranged in such a way that it never conflicts with the tab color.

This does seem like it would be useful in some situations, I guess I would be OK with adding an option to it.

[PalmerAL]

Actually, we could probably detect what the colors in the favicon are, compare them to the background color, and only add the gray background if they're too similar to each other...

[Tomadelostacos]

It could be a great idea, it's not "too heavy" if the user has a lot of opened tabs ?

[PalmerAL]

It would probably make sense to hide the favicons if there are too many tabs open, although I'm not exactly sure what number that would be.

[Tomadelostacos]

I personally don't fully agree on that. As a user, when i have a lot of tabs opened, i can find my tab faster with favicons + location in my tabs than with the first letters. (It's my personal opinion ! )

[PalmerAL]

That's a good point, I guess an alternative would be to hide the title and just use the favicon when the tab reaches the minimum width.

[PalmerAL]

Closing as duplicate of #304.