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Title: How to refresh the tiny tab icons in Safari when they start disappearing
Post by: HCK on September 19, 2019, 04:05:15 pm
How to refresh the tiny tab icons in Safari when they start disappearing

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<p>The wee little icon that appears for most websites in Safari tabs when you have Safari &gt; Preferences &gt; Tabs &gt; Show Website Icons in Tabs enabled (https://www.macworld.com/article/3284407/article.html) is called a favicon. These micro-badges can help you identify a site by icon, instead of by tab name or other details.</p><p>Sometimes these tab icons and the similar ones in the bookmarks list go missing. You’ll see a generic globe symbol or even something that looks broken. A few years ago, I provided advice to reset the state of favicons (https://www.macworld.com/article/2991537/fixing-bookmark-logos-after-using-airport-or-other-hotspots.html), but Apple changed Safari’s storage of these little drawings in the interim.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3436938/how-to-refresh-the-tiny-tab-icons-in-safari-when-they-start-disappearing.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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