Why Favicons Are Useful

Use favicons as bookmarks to save space.

December 4th, 2005 | No Remarks

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  1. David Harrison Comments:

    I can’t be doing with a lot of bookmarks, the only time I’ll use a bookmark is for something that I come accross that is very important and that I will need to go back to later.

    For all the sites I go to on a daily basis I just remember the first couple of letters of the URL.

    ctrl+t
    w+e
    *down arrow*
    *enter*

    And I’m at the webdev forums, for GMail it’s just g+m, for my site it’s just h+d etc.

    And then of course, there’s always the links I put in my side-bar on my site, they’re not for other people, oh no, they’re for me. :D

  2. Jona Comments:

    I often do that myself, Dave, for sites that do not have favicons. Still, I find it more convenient and easier to find things by seeing their icons. Thanks for pointing that out, though.

  3. Martin Neczypor Comments:

    How do you do that? Just delete it’s name?

  4. Jona Comments:

    Yes, bookmark the site, and if it has a favicon, the favicon will appear just before the name. Right-click, hit Properties, and empty the name field. Hit ‘OK’ and there will just be the icon remaining. Nifty, huh?

  5. Mike Cherim Comments:

    My wife doesn’t do bookmarks either, but then again I hooked her up so to speak. She has here own private, password-protected web page (a really pretty tropical beach theme). On it she has a tool to write notes to herself and well as a spiffy cascading links list of sites she uses. It’s like her own web portal. Actually, I guess that’s exactly what it is.

  6. monkeypup Comments:

    lol. This reminds me of my bookmark toolbar.

    http://monkeypup.org/media/pics/009.jpg

    I use the Firefox extension “Favicon picker” so that I can replace favicons for bookmarks or give bookmarks without favicons icons of my choosing. Neat stuff.

  7. Christian Montoya Comments:

    So why doesn’t your site have a favicon? It would complete your design, in my opinion.

  8. Jona Comments:

    In a previous life (well, a previous design at least), I did have a favicon. For now, I don’t, though, mostly because I’m not sure what best way to represent “Slightly Remarkable by Jonathan Fenocchi” in 16 pixels or less. ;)

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