Favicon for websites not showing in Safari

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Favicon for websites not showing in Safari

I really want to use Safari as my main browser now that I am using a new M1 MacBook Air, in order to make the best use of battery. I have used both Chrome and Firefox as my main browser. One of the things I REALLY like about those browsers is that I can add favourite/bookmarks to the toolbar with *just* the website's icon (favicon) and quickly pick from that. I imported bookmarks from Firefox to Safari, but the favicons are missing. I did try visiting those sites to pull in the icons (this is the behaviour with Firefox if starting from fresh).

I have ensured that 'Show website icons in tabs' in selected in Preferences, FWIW.

The screenshot below shows how the favourites with icons are great in Firefox but poop in Safari.

Honestly, this is the only blocker to me using Safari as main browser. I really cannot understand why these icons are not showing 🤷‍♂️

Posted on Mar 21, 2021 4:02 AM

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dominic23

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Mar 21, 2021 4:36 AM in response to Ian Lloyd

Currently Safari doesn't support showing Favicon in the Favorites bar.

However if you add a folder in the Favorites bar and add favorites to that folder

and when you click open the folder, Favorites will shoe Favicon until a user empties caches or clear history.

Safari windows:

https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/customize-the-safari-window-ibrw1012/14.0/mac/11.0

About Favorites:

https://support.apple.com/lt-lt/guide/safari/sfri22092/mac

Submit a Feedback/Feature request to Apple: https://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

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