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This repository was archived by the owner on Mar 15, 2024. It is now read-only.
[2.0preview] Ease up on the favicon loading #220
Description
Firefox is giving me a spinning mouse cursor as the page tries to download hundreds of favicons at the same time. For me it’s 1.2 megabyte of favicons. People on slower connections and more expensive data plans than me don’t appreciate loading resources they might not need. E.g. this would be painful to load over satellite.
How about only loading favicons progressively. It’ not like you loose a whole lot of functionality if an icons is delayed and loads a bit slower. Maybe only load for three times the number of sites that are visible on screen? (So currently visible sites plus two screens of scrolling worth of favicons.)