Actually, I think Mathew Link brings up a point that could lead to a
very cool feature.  What if hovering triggered a thumbnail of the page
to appear?  A thumbnail system is already in place, and is accessible
via a simple URL.  I, too, find that text is a bit cumbersome.  I'm a
big fan of the refined half-taskbar, half-dock in Windows 7; I'd live
to see something similar done to the bookmark toolbar.  There'd be
room for more bookmarks, and usability would be increased as a result
of the clutter-free interface.

On Jun 16, 8:31 pm, Brett Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 16, 11:24 am, "Matthew Link" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I would like to know how to get the Chrome bookmark bar to display favicons 
> > of my choice rather than the ones it loads from the page, or even worse, 
> > the generic favicon if none is on the page.  As there is limited space on 
> > the bookmark bar, I never include the text, but if the icon being used is 
> > the generic one, the only way to tell what it links is to hover over it.  
> > And if the URL is not memorized, such as via obfuscation or an unusual 
> > domain name, not even hovering works.  Thus, it is important that the URL 
> > be identified with a certain icon.  Also, there should be a way to suppress 
> > the text title so that it is only displayed when hovering; the only way to 
> > prevent the text from taking up space on the bookmark bar now is to delete 
> > it altogether.
>
> It is not possible to change the favicons. It wouldn't be super hard
> to add support for this for extensions (needs bindings and a bit of
> backend work to keep from updating them), but it has not been
> something that's a priority.
>
> Just guessing: I don't think title text on hover but not on the bar is
> something we'd likely ever support.
>
> Brett

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