Show the original website's favicon for tabs that are paused by the Great Suspender

[Pauan]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 174

Version of Tab Organizer: 4.3
Version of Google Chrome: 37.0.2062.120 m
Version of operating system: Win 8.1

Please describe the problem you are having, or the feature you want added:

The Great Suspender is the perfect companion app for Tab Organizer. It pauses tabs
so that system resources aren't compromised.  

The one issue is that The Great Suspender's favicon displays for suspended tabs in
Tab Organizer's open tab list instead of the original websites' favicons. It would
be great to show the original favicons.

Reported by steve@organek.com on 2014-09-21 15:23:17

[Pauan]

That shouldn't happen, because Tab Organizer uses Chrome APIs to retrieve the favicon.
So either the Chrome APIs are wrong, or The Great Suspender is doing things in a hacky
way that bypasses the Chrome API. I'll take a look into this and see if there's anything
I can do on my end to fix it.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2014-09-22 09:08:49

• Status changed: Assigned
• Labels added: Type-HelpNeeded
• Labels removed: Type-Unconfirmed

[Pauan]

P.S. Tab Organizer version 5 (which isn't finished yet) will have the ability to unload
tabs. See issue 162 for progress on that.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2014-09-22 17:06:34

[Pauan]

It may be worth mentioning that showing The Great Suspender's favicon for suspended
tabs instead of the original favicon used to be a The Great Suspender issue. You can
see that from the comments in the Extension Store. 

Bypassing the Chrome API may have been the only way for The Great Suspender to fix
that problem. Before posting this issue, I sent an email to you and The Great Suspender's
developer. Hopefully, he can explain how he bypassed the API and you can implement
the bypass in Tab Organizer.

Reported by steve@organek.com on 2014-09-22 17:20:26

[Pauan]

Okay, I looked into it some more, and I should be able to fix this, but you'll have
to wait until version 5 is released, which won't be for a while. Thanks for the bug
report.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2014-11-02 08:12:43