graphicsmacsafari
The touch icon files used in Safari are stored on a mac in the folder ~/Library/Safari/Touch Icons, and each file in a .png file, with what seems to be an arbitrary name.
By swapping an image in this folder, I can change the image displayed in Safari in the bookmarks bar. However, I can't do the same for the bookmarks without an image already in the folder.
Does anyone know how Safari names these files, and how it connects a bookmark to this image?
I have a similar workflow that I've used in Safari and I've used the Edit Name Feature to make it easier to move from one site to another.
If I bring up a chart of SSO in Stockcharts.com and create a Bookmark, the Bookmarks Toolbar Menu shows it as SSO - Stockcharts Workbench - Stockcharts.Com.
Then I "Show All Bookmarks", right-click (control click) edit the name SSO - Stockcharts Workbench - Stockcharts.Com to be just SSO.
This now appears as SSO on my bookmark toolbar list. To switch to this bookmark, I can choose it under the Bookmarks menu or Bookmarks Toolbar. What I usually do is use Cmd L which highlights the address bar, type SSO and Safari displays a short list of History and Bookmarks. I scroll down to SSO under Bookmarks and hit "Enter" for my SSO chart. This bypasses using the mouse and gets me right to the chart with just a few keystrokes.
As another example, I get to Apple with CMD L, AAPL, cursor down to AAPL site I want and hit Enter.
Here's a screenshot for AAPL with several bookmarked sites that include AAPL.
I like using Cmd L for two reasons. I can move from one bookmark to another without needing to use my mouse or trackpad. Plus the shortened SSO Name sits on my Bookmark Toolbar using much less space than if I added it to the Toolbar with the original bookmark title.
Safari doesn't show icons for bookmarks in the toolbar itself, only in the bookmark menus.
The icons aren't stored with the bookmarks, Safari has a separate cache for all the favicons of sites that have been visited (I believe this is the case for Firefox and Chrome as well, but I'm not 100% sure). If you look in the bookmarks viewer or menu, open a site that doesn't have an icon, then check back in the bookmarks viewer, you'll see that Safari has added the icon to that bookmark entry (assuming the site has a favicon set in the first place). So while you may not see icons at first for bookmarks you import, they'll fill in eventually as you visit the sites.
Best Answer
The PNG files are named using a MD5 hash of the website URL. For example, the name for the Google image is stored by hashing
www.google.comto get 0A137B375CC3881A70E186CE2172C8D1.png