If I delete the "Favicons" cache safari works much faster. But then quickly renews itself. Otherwise safari hangs for a minute. How do I remove "Favicons" from my Mac?
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, 2 TBT3), macOS High Sierra (10.13)
Even if you remove the Favicons, the very next site that you visit will create a new Favicon cache, with a new Sqlite3 database entry. Safari works much faster without any Extensions, or an onslaught of Plug-ins. I would concentrate on trimming these before wasting any effort on favicon cache that regenerates.
Download and run Etrecheck. Copy and paste the results into your reply. Etrecheck is a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC and recommended by Apple Support to provide a snapshot of the system and help identify the more obvious culprits that can adversely affect a Mac's performance.
Enter in user library macOS Sierra: Library folder
Find a folder Safari > click on Favicon cache ( select all the contents in the ahead column , use command and A and delete - use command and delete button on the keyboard ) .
It sounds like you are convinced that your cache is slower than a round trip to the end server including all nodes between you and the server. I'm sorry I can't agree. I still think you have something else going on such as a third party anti virus or other cleaning, performance boosting app that may maybe interfering with browsing.
You could try posting an etrecheck report so that we may analyze what may be contributing to your issue.
I doubt favicons is causing Safari slowness. The purpose of the cache is to speed up browsing. Many/most web sites have a favicon, it is the little image that is displayed in the browser address bar. If the favicon for a site is not located in your browser cache the page has to perform another server access to get the favicon. If the favicon is found locally in your cache then this additional round trip to the server is not required. It is much faster to load an image (favicon) from your local cache than from a remote web site. You have some other issue causing slowness.
Leave favicon cache , if entire contents of safari folder , from user library are selected and deleted , restarting the machine and then empty the trash .
Once again if you open the user library > safari folder - fresh new contents are recreated .
Same with caches and cookies folder - you can confirm this with apple support .
There is no apple article for this .
The first couple of web pages I open after are very quick to load. After that it goes back to the progress bar hanging at about an inch for thirty seconds or more, once favicons has reinitiated. I read favicons is a Microsoft development. To me that explains all, Microsoft is the worst.
Yes that's the idea but it has to look through the cache first instead of just using it from the web. Trust me on my machine without the favicons cache the first couple of pages are very fast. Then it reinitiates & every page will hang with about an inch of progress bar for thirty seconds. I read favicons is a Microsoft development. To me that explains all, Microsoft is the worst.
OK then I can't explain why before the cache has time to reinitiate the web is the fastest I've ever seen on any machine in twenty years. I have no apps or cleaning tools other then Amazon Music. Other then that it is bare Apple as new. Initially I wanted to clean out the history & turned off data base caches. I also removed the favicon, sure enough it was quick as could be until favicon got back on. All I want to do is remove favicon permanently.
Yeah , the favicon cache will immediately be created after deleting , but that are not removed until there is big problem in safari .
I dont know why OP has thought to remove it .
Thanks, but almost as soon as I do it reinitiates itself after a couple of web pages.
How do I remove "Favicons" from my Mac?
