Even when you have a lot of Chrome tabs open, you still mostly always see the favicon.
When it stop showing the favicons, that's when you really know you have too many tabs open.
It's a bit of a feature, really. The tabs are still completely usable, but not seeing the favicons was just annoying enough that it changed my behavior and would cause me to finally close a bunch of my open tabs.
Re:macOS Big Sur
by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:05PM
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If you had a small window it could happen with a pretty small number of tabs. It was bad.
Don't give them too much credit. For a very long time, the minimum size for chrome tabs resulted in them hiding the favicon, becoming a completely useless row of triangles. And to add insult to injury, the tabs were still big enough to show favicons if they wanted to.