I'm hoping the http://hetima.com/safaristand/ site will update to Sierra asap. Given how may apple users have complained over the years about Apple dropping the favicons from it's tab bars you'd think it would listen and bring them back in the new Safari version!
Anybody know of any other way to bring back favicons to Safari tabs?
Confirmed, SafariStand is not working on the latest release of MacOS (10.12.4), Safari 10.1.
What I did this morning:
I've posted to the thread on GitHub here: https://github.com/hetima/SafariStand/issues/56
SafariStand 10.0.655 was working beautifully on MacOS 10.12.3. Not any longer after update to 10.12.4, Safari 10.1.
MySIMBL seems to be working fine.
SafariStand 10.0.655 does install into MySIMBL and the correct Library folder
and yet it does not become functional.
Thoughts?
And I always thought Apple was about delighting users and putting awesome user experience first.
This rigid attitude of eliminating favicons at all cost, no matter what we, their (high) paying customers say, is indeed disheartening and very Apple-unlike.
This decision is as weird as removing the headlights from a car, because they distort the overall design balance.
Here's a pretty good workaround as you can have 2 versions of Safari running as long one is named differently and it assumes you use Time Machine and can go back before March 28th this year.
Find your Time Machine backup folder on the drive you use to backup - open any folder pre March 28th [date of the last major safari update] and go to the Applications folder and drag the Safari app out and put it on your desktop. Once there rename it Safari 10.03 {I think any suffix will work} and then drag it into your Applications folder [make sure to drag this version to your dock bar as well. That's pretty much it. I initially had problems with being unable to type anything in the search bar but I just clicked the plus button in SafariStand settings QuickSearch settings and that seemed to fix it. Both Safari versions reside in the app folder and the older renamed version works with Safari Stand
at last a patch has been made for the new version of Safari... make sure SIP is disabled [http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac/how-turn-off-mac-os-x-system-integrity-prot ection-rootless-3638975/ ]
and then download and install this Safari Stand Patcher.pkg.zip
I had to reinstall my SIMBL but that should already be in the app folder [make sure to chose "show icon in tab bar] in SafariStand settings
Voila, favicons are back!
For me, it is the ability to disable full width tabs.
I can't tell you how my heart sank when I opened Safari 10 and got the notification that SafariStand was no longer working.
Full width tabs may ( I stress, may) look attractive to some people but they are a pragmatic nightmare. Two hours in and I'm getting frustrated and a little anxious. I'm guessing that as Hetima didn't release a version of SafariStand compatible with El Capitan, any further updates could be a long time coming. I just hope that another developer recognises the hopes of some (if not many) and creates a fix.
If you are using Sierra, know that SIMBL is incompatible with the OS. Discovered that after upgrading my iMac to Sierra. That means SafariStand, which requires SIMBL, is DOA.
I am able to use SafariStand with Safari 9/El Capitan on my MacBook Pro. However, same is not true for Safari 10. The developer may need to update SafariStand for compatibility. I sent a tweet to the developer. If you are using Safari 10 on El Capitan, consider doing the same.
I too want the favicon and custom tab options returned to Safari. Also, a dated download folder as offered in SafariStand would be a plus. I've sent feedback to Apple's Safari team. Consider doing the same.
Even though no mention of compatibility by the developer, SafariStand is compatible with El Capitan/Safari 9. This is true for tabs, favicons and dated download folders. As I don't use any other features, I don't know if they are compatible.
I'm actually still on Yosemite and probably the only reason I didn't update to El Capitan is that there didn't seem to be a version of SafariStand which was compatible - at least not according to the developer's website.
I just discovered that my girlfriend also had Safari updated automatically and she is not happy about it either.
SafariStand adds so much that ought to be integral to Safari but also adds a lot of functionality for users who like to expand beyond the confines such as keyword search.
Anyway, I will Tweet to Hetima.
I used the Yosemite version of SafariStand on El Capitan with no issue with favicons, tab spacing, scrolling via tabs or download folder dates.
Yesterday, I upgraded to Safari 10 after updating my clone backup. Glad I did as it was quite simple to revert to Safari 9 again.
I just posted this message on the Safari feedback page, let's see for a change if I get a reply this time:
"Dear Safari team,
I have asked this question many times over the last several Safari updates, but have yet to hear back from you:
What's really the reason you have removed favicons from Safari tabs?
As a long-time Mac user I fail to understand why you would impose additional complexity on so many of us who have complained about this simple and so helpful feature of having a visual aid to quickly find the one tab I'm looking for among the many I have open.
Many of us unhappy Safari users have used SafariStand to get favicons back, but macOS 10.12 has now closed the door for this workaround as well.
Why must Safari be the only Mac browser that doesn't offer this feature?
Please let me know what I can do and help to bring this feature back.
Thank you."
Well, I feel only slightly regretful in saying that for me, this was the last straw and I just spent an hour or so ditching Safari in favour of Chrome; transferring bookmarks, finding equivalent extensions and configuring them.
Why hang around just to be slapped about?!
Some of SafariStand's features such as keyword searches are built in and a brief scan through the Chrome extensions left me feeling lie a butterfly released from a jam jar.
Oh darn! I saw this coming since a while, but I still was in denial as I could not imagine that Apple would show their users such a cold shoulder, hard to believe really. This makes no sense to me.
First thing tomorrow morning I too will switch ... Chrome? Firefox? ... time will tell.
Sad.
One more question ... transitioning to Chrome, how did you manage the many passwords and logins you may have saved in your Safari Keychain?
Because my main reason not to upgrade to El Capitan no longer applied (what I believed was SafariStand no longer working under El Capitan), I decided to install El Capitan anyway (having discovered too late that SafariStand does work).
Anyway, after I installed El Capitan, I realised that it had installed Safari 9.1.2 and that I could stop App Store installing Safari 10. However, that would leave me with a version of Safari which needed the security update to 9.1.3 and the only option was to update to Safari 10. It's quite a ridiculous situation that I will be sticking with Chrome because I cannot install an intermediate update instead.
Incidentally, I got a notification of a question from Herbert but whenever I log in, it disappears; so, just so that Herbert doesn't think that I am rude and ignoring him, the answer to the question about bookmarks is that I use 1Password and so I used that to auto complete for me and each time Chrome asked if I wanted to save it as well. I didn't let Safari log me into every site as some sites I didn't want to be logged into.
So Safari Stand doesn't work with Safari 10
