Yesterday I worked on making the icons load 'in the background' so that it will not cause Quicksilver to hang. This is now pending review by other developers at https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/pull/805
I do not believe it will take too long to be accepted, so it may be in the next version of Quicksilver or the one after. On 11 April 2012 09:31, su <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <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<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<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<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? >>> >> >>
