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[Leman]

For some strange reason, when I add the Pendraken website to my favourites list it adopts the Baccus logo. Any ideas folks?

[Steve J]

Nope, mine shows the Pendraken 'P'.

[Leon]

For some strange reason, when I add the Pendraken website to my favourites list it adopts the Baccus logo. Any ideas folks?

That's slightly odd!  We do share the same web developer and server space, so there could potentially be a clash in the system somewhere.  Strangely I don't get a 'P' on my bookmarks, I get the BT swirl logo...

[Techno]

What's a favourites list, when it's at home ?

Being a computer numpty....I don't use this high tech stuff ! 

Cheers - Technodestructorman (My full title)

[Leon]

What's a favourites list, when it's at home ?

Like a Bookmark, so a list of the sites that you've saved to come back to regularly.  I have all of the work ones on the toolbar at the top of my browser for ease of clicking about.

[Techno]

You know what's coming, Chief.......

What's a bookmark ?

(I don't use any of 'this stuff'....and am probably oodles happier for that) )

Cheers - Phil..(Who doesn't do Faceache...Twitter....Youtube and all the rest.....Life's far too short.  )

[Leon]

What's a bookmark ?

It's a stored list of websites that you visit regularly, so depending on which browser you use they're called bookmarks or favourites.  When you're on a site, so the Pendraken Forum as an example, there should be a menu somewhere for you to add that site to your saved list.  In Firefox, it's in the 'Bookmarks' menu at the top, for Explorer it's through the Star icon in the top right, in Chrome it's through the 3-dots icon in the top right.

There's usually an option to then have them listed on a toolbar at the top of your browser, so you can just click them and away you go to that site.

[Leman]

Well here it is, and Techno, this is what my favourites menu looks like:

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thought it would look more like this:
https://www.claridges.co.uk/restaurants-bars/afternoon-tea/

[Leman]

No, more like
www.barneysamsterdam.com

[Techno]

Ahem.....Right then.

The only 'sites' that I visit on any remotely frequent basis are.....

Here (obviously)...

Radio 4 extra's schedules
BBC News
BBC Weather
My Gmail account.

That's it.

I also do a 'complete' delete after every visit to the net...so I assume it would take any 'favourites' or bookmarked links away.

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

I also do a 'complete' delete after every visit to the net...so I assume it would take any 'favourites' or bookmarked links away.

What do you mean by that Phil? Does it mean every time you visit a site (like the forum, or gmail) you have to type your username and password in again? And why do you think it helps?

I really can't see what you gain by doing this. If you don't want sites to track you as easily, you can get the same effect by opening an Incongito tab in your browser - exactly how varies by browser, but in Chrome its by clicking the 3 dots, and choosing the option from the menu. 

[mollinary]

Ahem.....Right then.

The only 'sites' that I visit on any remotely frequent basis are.....


I also do a 'complete' delete after every visit to the net...so I assume it would take any 'favourites' or bookmarked links away.

Cheers - Phil

I used to worry about this sort of thing, now I don't really care who knows what sites I have been visiting!  Being so boring allowed me to laugh out loud when I received an e mail claiming they had planted malware on my computer via an 'adult website' I had visited, and threatening to reveal all to my entire contact list unless I instantly sent them money. 

[mmcv]

Ctrl+Shift+N will open incognito too. But all it does is prevent saving of cookies and history and the like once you close the window. Won't stop any nefarious spies from tracking everything you do. Cause the government needs to know every site that every person visits. It's a matter of national security...and the children, won't someone please think of the children!

As to the original issue, you can sometimes go into the options for a bookmark and refresh it or set the logo, depending on the application. Could try deleting it and readding?

I'm just waiting for the day Phil updates his username to Technophobe.

[Leon]

The only 'sites' that I visit on any remotely frequent basis are.....

Here (obviously)...

Radio 4 extra's schedules
BBC News
BBC Weather
My Gmail account.

I also do a 'complete' delete after every visit to the net...so I assume it would take any 'favourites' or bookmarked links away.

So you could have those 5 sites/locations set up as Bookmarks, and when you turn on the computer you'd just click the bookmark rather than having to type in the website address each time.  Remembering logins and passwords is a separate issue and you can still choose to not 'remember' those for when you return.  The bookmarks would be kept as they're essentially quick-click roadmaps straight to a particular site, not a cookie that's tracking your activity.