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I sincerely hope I am posting this in the correct place.


I don't know whether this has happened since I downloaded Mountain Lion as I don't recall this little annoyance previously.


When I clear history from within my Bookmarks Menu, all the Bookmarks Icons I had showing disappear - and I am left with the round icons.


Am I not doing something right here?


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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 11:00 AM

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Jul 27, 2012 12:58 PM in response to hartlepoolmonkey

Website icons aren't "enable/disable", they are downloaded and store locally. Cleaning Safari caches when reinitialising will simply delete these icons that will again, download automatically next time you visite the website.


If you don't want Reset Safari to delete these icon, un-tick the "delete web icon" before doing the reset.


Maybe you haven't reset your Safari but the installation of Safari 6 along with ML may have cleaned the cache were they were stored. No big deal.

Jul 28, 2012 6:03 PM in response to mxgenius

Like hartlepoolmonkey pointed out, Apple have removed the option to leave web site icon when you reinitialize Safari. This is why it look more like a deliberate choice in Safari 6 to delete them when your clear your cache.

It make sense since they are cached icons but the look of the favorite is diminish.


Each time a changes like this are made, there are pros and cons and unsatisfied users. I would simply say it's the Apple ways to try to simplify the user interface and it often happen by removing choices and options.

Jul 31, 2012 3:34 PM in response to hartlepoolmonkey

hartlepoolmonkey,


When I upgraded to Safari v6.0 for Lion I also came across this issue. So I thought it must be an anomaly, so I figured I would just take the plunge and upgrade to Mountain Lion to see if it resolved the issue. Well it did not. (By the way ML is quite Nice.)


In Safari 6, I will certainly miss losing the "RSS" and "Activity" features of the previous version. But I am Really Upset At Losing the Web Icons/favicons. All 3 features/functions desperately need to be added back into the next update.


If you go back to the "Reset Safari..." per you screenshot and in the bottom left corner "select" the little help ?. You will see in the "Help" description that "clearing" the history does indeed "remove web site icons."


I think this is a Faux pas from Apple and violates or deviates from their own GUI guidelines. Or at the very least falls upon what I call the "Do No Harm" guideline.


Apple long ago knew that humans are visual, hence one of the reasons Apple created the Mac OS with Icons. The OS for the Rest Of Us. Other wise we would all still be using "command line operating systems and applications." (Please don't get me wrong, The Terminal and Command Line are still great ways to get things done - That's Another Discussion)


My Bookmarks are very well organized and I could instinctively/visually go right to the Bookmark/url of the website (Including the Apple Web Icon) I wanted to visit. Now I see a bunch of generic "Blue World" Web Icons and this "Is Not" intuitive.


Anyway there are Other Apple Discussions/Threads with different titles going on describing the same issue.


In the "Safari6: favicons slow to load and don't 'stick' (remain in bookmarks) Discussion user "stepg" posted something we should all take advantage of:

stepg

Re: Safari 6: favicons slow to load and don't 'stick' (remain in bookmarks)


Jul 30, 2012 5:42 AM (in response to hockeybear)

I'm sure that Apple would welcome everyone's (polite and constructive) feedback:


http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html


Thanks hartlepoolmonkey for a great discussion - jkd032

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