I've also been experiencing problems with QS fetching favicons, mostly due to poor signal and congestion on wifi links. Although I don't need them I recognize it adds a custom look to Web Search plugin. I like this. However, it'd be useful to have the option to manually fetch them all once in a while.
I don't know if this feature will find acceptance or ever be part of QS, but at least can fetching be temporary disabled? On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:54:21 AM UTC+1, Patrick wrote: > > If you could let us know the exact URL the favicons for those sites, that > will be useful. > > When creating the favicon fetching code, I remember being worried that > there is no fallback for when the favicons don't exist. At the moment, the > code tries to fetch the favicon directly using: > http://g.etfv.co/WEB_SEARCH_URL > and will hang if it can't quite find it, this should be fixed. > > I've just tested the flickr one and it doesn't return a favicon, as you're > saying. If you could try and figure out what the right URL should be to get > this to work, that'd be useful :) > > Check out http://g.etfv.co/ > > On 14 December 2011 09:50, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Okay, so the culprits that do not have the favicon, and therefore >> hang, are: >> >> flickr: http://flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=***&m=text >> warez-bb: >> http://www.warez-bb.org/search.php?mode=results&search_keywords=***&search_terms=all&search_fields=titleonly >> >> most of the others don't hang (e.g. google: >> http://www.google.com/search?q=***&as_qdr=all), >> and they have icons. >> >> perhaps it's to do with the way the define the favicon, or the >> filetype. I'll take a look later to confirm (busy with Ph.D Apps right >> now :P) >> >> On Dec 11, 1:07 pm, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Forget few days. An hour later, typing "wz" (for warez-bb) produces >> > noticable lags. The same thing happens with flickr, which also doesn't >> > show a favicon. >> > >> > On Dec 11, 12:21 pm, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > I've been having (minor) problems ever since the Web Search Plugin >> > > introduced favicons. I'm not totally sure how Quicksilver handles the >> > > favicons, but it seems to me that for some sites (eg warez-bb), not >> > > only can it not download the favicon, but it hangs every few days (i >> > > presume from attempting to redownload it?). >> > >> > > Sometimes, it even interferes with my normal running of Quicksilver: >> > > e.g. getting to (sk)ype means I have to go through "s", which is a >> > > search keyword, and so it sometimes will hang, instead of going >> > > straight to Skype. >> > >> > > For me, I have no need for favicons...I know exactly which shortcuts >> > > lead to which searches. Would it be possible to offer the option of >> > > disabling it? >> > >
