Also sometimes the favicon is just missing from the tabs bar but not if i click in the adress bar
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Blurry or improper favicon
Which brings me to a new discovery, in the case of of Discord the one used in the adress bar looks correct, where the one in in the tabs bar looks flawed
youtube acts like Discord. no smoothing aplied, but seems like Safari is getting a better favicon
So yeah seems like theres alot of different things going on. and that its very common
ifixit.com
is an example of using a completly different one
Orion/Safari
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The Favicons in the horizontal tab bar are heavily pixelated / Lack smoothing
Steps to reproduce:
- Have horizontal tabs enabled
- Go to https://orionfeedback.org/?
- Be sad about the bad looking icon
Expected behavior:
Crisp and smooth looking icons like in Safari
Version 0.99.123.1-beta (WebKit 615.1.16.1)
MacBook Pro (macOS Ventura 13.2 build 22D49)
Merged 2 posts from Favicons lack smoothing.
Many browser can dynamically update their favicon, but Orion can't.
seen this same issue, primarly with things like the google forms favicon carrying over the sheets/docs/etc
Merged 3 posts from Favicon update (if the favicon would change, it should also change it on Orion).
a month later
When I search something in the address bar the favicon of that Google search page is the favicon of Google Photos. A restart of Orion didn't help. A reload of the page also doesn't help.
Orion 0.99.123.3-beta (WebKit 615.1.16.1)
macOS Version 13.2.1 (Build 22D68)
Mac14,12
Session Info:
- Open windows => 1
- Pinned tabs => 0
- Active window tabs => 6
- Active tab url => https://orionfeedback.org/
Enabled Extensions:
- Dashlane — Password Manager (chrome)
Disabled Extensions:
Non Default Settings:
- ShowFullWebsiteAddress => 0
- OfferSavePassword => 0
- ContentBlockerLastUpdated => 2023-02-03 00:00:00 +0000
- isBackgroundImageDarkOnStartPage => 1
- overflowMenuItems => (
) - WebAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled => 0
- WebContinuousSpellCheckingEnabled => 0
- WebAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled => 0
- WebAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled => 0
- ShouldShowWelcomeAnimation => 0
- ToolbarConfiguration => {
"TB Default Item Identifiers" = (
toggleSidebar,
navigationGroup,
NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem,
privacyButton,
websiteSettingsButton,
locationBar,
bookmarkButton,
addTabButton,
NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem,
shareButton,
tabOverview
);
"TB Display Mode" = 2;
"TB Icon Size Mode" = 1;
"TB Is Shown" = 1;
"TB Item Identifiers" = (
toggleSidebar,
NSToolbarSidebarTrackingSeparatorItemIdentifier,
navigationGroup,
NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem,
privacyButton,
websiteSettingsButton,
locationBar,
bookmarkButton,
addTabButton,
NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem,
"webExtButton-fdjamakpfbbddfjaooikfcpapjohcfmg",
shareButton,
downloadsButton
);
"TB Size Mode" = 1;
} - FirstLaunch => 0
- FirstTimeWebExtensionNotice => 1
- AllowChromeWebExtensions => 1
- KagiOpensWith => newWindow
- LastUsedBuildVersion => 123.3
- WillInstallUpdate => 0
- PreCompiledContentRuleListVersion => 123.3
- LastCrashCheckDate => 2023-03-18 09:38:24 +0000
- NextDownloadID => 174
- SavedWindowSize => 1920.0,970.0
- SavedWindowPosition => 0.0,85.0
- ShowTitlesInTabs => 1
- StatusBarVisible => 0
- BookmarksSidebarVisible => 0
- BookmarksSidebarWidth => 240
- QuitWithConfirmation => 0
- ActivePreferenceTab => search
- UseTabSwitcherUI => 1
- RemoveHistoryItemsAfter => manually
- BookmarksLastSynced => 1679132304919.694
- ReadingListLastSynced => 1679132304922.157
Safari: 
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It seems like it doesn't happen at the first search but after roughly 2 searches (each search in new tab)
GrasPlukker Steps to reproduce on a clean new orion profile?
Vlad Yes I did "Reset Orion" (and ticked all the boxes in the popup). And I can still reproduce it:
Merged 6 posts from Google Search favicon shows as Google Photos favicon.
11 days later
i think there are two issues here:
- orion sometimes uses a weird/fuzzy/off-color favicon
- has all sorts of random things happening
- orion doesn't keep a different favicon for each website, but rather, for each domain
- this results in google docs having the same favicon as google forms (coz they both use the docs.google.com domain)
It seems like I can't reproduce my issue with the favicons in the latest RC anymore 
2 months later
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I did some tests. and found several problems with Orion and Favicons.
some websites have different favicon depending on if the system is in dark mode or not. GitHub is one example.
that is to avoid having black icon on dark background.
If you visit github in light mode. and then the system swith to dark mode, Orion will remember favicon from light mode instead of checking for a new favicon. resulting in this:
Makes it very hard to tell what website you have open, It will keep that favicon even if you open a new tab and go to the site
I think this is related to 2. mentioned by eirk futher up. so unlike website titles that dynamically change in Orion favicons are static, so i guess tittles do checks all the time so the tittle update, favicons should do the same
Discord is a good example:
Tittle change, Favicon does not.
I did this script you can copy into a Programmable Button. that will display what favicon should be shown:
var favicon = document.querySelector('link[rel="icon"]') || document.querySelector('link[rel="shortcut icon"]');
var faviconUrl = favicon.href;
var faviconImage = document.createElement('img');
faviconImage.src = faviconUrl;
faviconImage.style.position = 'fixed';
faviconImage.style.top = '10px'; // Adjust the position as needed
faviconImage.style.left = '10px'; // Adjust the position as needed
faviconImage.style.zIndex = '9999'; // Set a high z-index to ensure it's displayed on top
faviconImage.style.pointerEvents = 'none'; // Make it non-interactive
document.body.appendChild(faviconImage);That script shows this icon:
Steps to reproduce:
- Open Twitter/Youtube
- See the favicon
Expected behavior:
Normal quality of favicons
Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Orion RC 0.99.124.1.1-rc (WebKit 616.1.14.11.1)
macOS Version 13.4 (Build 22F66)
Image/Video:
Merged 2 posts from Low quality of favicons.