Use favicon as taskbar icon
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Use favicon as taskbar icon
Is there any way to use favicon of current tab as taskbar icon?
I think is pretty cool and i love it for better readability
I think is pretty cool and i love it for better readability
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
@MrVicious: Please clarify what you are attempting to do?
Yes, you can extract the favicons from most websites; there's lots of 'howto' info available online e.g: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=extract+favic ... 8=1&ia=web
Also several small online and offline utilities/tools that can help manipulate favicons e.g: http://www.getfavicon.org/
What do you mean by use as a 'taskbar icon' ?
Windows and most other OS have 'taskbars'... Pale Moon and most other browsers have 'toolbars' ?
Yes, you can extract the favicons from most websites; there's lots of 'howto' info available online e.g: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=extract+favic ... 8=1&ia=web
Also several small online and offline utilities/tools that can help manipulate favicons e.g: http://www.getfavicon.org/
What do you mean by use as a 'taskbar icon' ?
Windows and most other OS have 'taskbars'... Pale Moon and most other browsers have 'toolbars' ?
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
I think they want the application icon on the taskbar to dynamically change based on the favicon of the page that has focus.
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
If this is about altering the Pale Moon icon on the Windows taskbar to match the browser's active tab favicon... then I doubt that is possible. This browser/OS 'feature' has been asked for a fair few times over last 10+ years in Windows, Firefox, and other browsers' forums if you look online... all with variations on 'No' as the answer. Taskbar icons are not favicons, they are OS file icons and are defined by the .lnk shortcut or .exe file and therefore this question is probably more about tweaking an OS than tweaking a browser?
Perhaps worth looking into how 'Taskbar Thumbnail Previews' work in Windows 10 & 11?
Perhaps worth looking into how 'Taskbar Thumbnail Previews' work in Windows 10 & 11?
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
Nevermind I thought it was possible and there was a configuration I wasn't seeing
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
This can be done, at least for Windows. This is an interesting task ...
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
I made this add-on...
Indeed, it looks good.
Indeed, it looks good.
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
"FavIcons in taskbar" add-on page:
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/favicons-in-taskbar/
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/favicons-in-taskbar/
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
@Kris_88
Great job! However, there is a small problem: it doesn't work for favicons with the svg extension. For example, the page https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html has the favicon https://resources.whatwg.org/logo.svg but it does not appear in the taskbar.
Great job! However, there is a small problem: it doesn't work for favicons with the svg extension. For example, the page https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html has the favicon https://resources.whatwg.org/logo.svg but it does not appear in the taskbar.
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
Thank you!tellu-white wrote: ↑2022-11-29, 13:03Great job! However, there is a small problem: it doesn't work for favicons with the svgar in the taskbar.
Probably there is a browser bug when drawing svg to canvas.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700533
https://bug700533.bmoattachments.org/at ... id=9270639
There is a workaround, but I do not like the proposed solution. I'll think about what I can do...
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
I'll keep an eye on that bug in case Moz comes up with a consensus-based solution.
I'm guessing that in the meantime you should just set a fixed, acceptable size for the SVG/Canvas to be used, similar to what we do with favicons in tabs?
I'm guessing that in the meantime you should just set a fixed, acceptable size for the SVG/Canvas to be used, similar to what we do with favicons in tabs?
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
Yes, I tried to do this. Indeed, the <img> is displayed correctly if you insert it into the DOM. But drawing to canvas does not work anyway.
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
Tested it on Linux - after displaying the Windows only warning, it should ideally uninstall itself.
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
It seems to me that this is ideologically incorrect. I adhere to a minimalist concept - the program should do only what is intended for and should not consider itself smarter than the user. If the user has installed, then let him uninstall. )
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
Btw, it's a good idea to limit which operating system can install your extension to prevent non-Windows users from being able to install your extension in the first place. You can look at how kakusu does it for example in its install.rdf:
Documentation in UDN: https://udn.realityripple.com/docs/Arch ... _Manifests (targetPlatform section)
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<em:targetPlatform>
WINNT_x86-msvc
</em:targetPlatform>
<em:targetPlatform>
WINNT_x86_64-msvc
</em:targetPlatform>
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Re: Use favicon as taskbar icon
It's a good idea.
Thank you!
Thank you!
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