Since Safari 17 and Makos Sonoma, Apple’s browser has supported the favorite bar. Keep reading to know why favicons can be useful, how to make space for more, and if they are not for you then how can you disable them.
A favorite is a small icon that serves as a kind of badge for a website. Its main objective is to make it easier to detect webpage when many tabs are open in a browser.
Favicons can usually be found next to anything in a browser interface that identifies a website. This may include bookmarks, tabs, history results and search bars.
In safari, if you have a favorite bar capable (See ➝ Favorite Bar Show In the menu bar of the safari), the fiwicon for each site will appear next to its title, allowing you to spot it easily at the bar.
Favicons can certainly be easy, but they can make your browser interface very busy and disorganized. Another possible issue with space is that if you have a full line of websites in your favorite bar, some of them will be excluded from the viewable area, and you may have to click on the double chever icon far away to reveal them.
If it happens in your case, do not worry. This is not clear, but you can easily prevent Fevicon from appearing in the preferred bar. Just right-click on one place on the bar and check Show only text In the pop-up menu.
If you should remember them at all, you can easily select them and turn back back Show icons and lessonsAlternatively, if you are a fan of Favicons and can identify your favorite at a glance, just select Show only the iconThis final option allows you to pack in more links with the bar.
Discover more from AM TechHive
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
