Trust me, the favicons in MacOS Mojave will make you like Safari better
Apple has a slew of new features coming with MacOS 10.14 Mojave -- a dark mode, stacks to organize files, the terrific screenshot tool already iOS, a gallery view in Finder, and even the ability to run iOS apps on your Mac. Fine, great, whatever.
For me, it was this six-word utterance from Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, that got my heart racing Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference: "Safari tabs can now have favicons." It was almost a throwaway line, with Apple mostly burying the feature in the fine print that detailed assorted changes too small to dwell on during a major keynote speech.
If you're like almost every ordinary person I've spoken to, you have no idea what a favicon is. But you actually probably do know what it is, because all browsers except Safari show them. They're the little website icons that show up on each tab -- a little red ball for CNET, the trademark gothic-script T for The New York Times, a blue bird for Twitter, a gray Apple logo for Apple. Microsoft invented them back in 1999 with Internet Explorer 5, and they've spread to every other browser for good reason.
