+1 Here. One of the few features that IE 8 has that I actually liked. Saves toolbar real estate. [?]
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Zenexer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- Cheers, Steve http://www.linkedin.com/in/torontostephenallen http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home http://portfolio-s-d-allen.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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