So right now in my address bar it reads: Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks.…
But just to the left of that instead of having the SD logo, it has my bank’s logo instead.
So, does that mean this board is officially too big to fail?
I think that means your browser’s cache got messed up
I, for one, welcome our new financial overlords.
I can’t wait to read Cecil’s column on how junk bonds, hedge funds, and packages of private debt are a sure bet in the market! Buy, buy, buy!
I would have imagined Cecil to be more of a gold bug.
Are you using some version of Firefox? This was (and maybe still is?) a long-standing bug in Firefox that they simply can’t or won’t fix, and it’s been that way for a long time.
(Disclaimer: I haven’t kept up with Firefox updates much, so maybe they eventually fixed it. My older versions have this bug, and FF has gone through many updates that I DID keep up with, without ever fixing it. The bug is well-known and much discussed on FF boards.)
What happens is, it mixes up which logos go with which sites. There is a way to fix this (there’s some cache of these logos that you need to clear out), but don’t bother, because once fixed, it doesn’t stay fixed. After a while, as FF begins to collect site logos again, they will get mixed up again.
Best solution I’ve found: Choose to not give a damn. (As far as I can tell, this doesn’t affect anything else that FF does.)
ETA: If you have a lot of bookmarks, you can see the logos all mixed up there too, on your bookmarks menu.
Apparently it’s been fixed or it was never a problem on FF on Mac, as I’ve not had that problem in five years of use.
FF hasn’t had favicons in the address bar for a year. Firefox deems favicons risky, banishes them from address bar | Engadget
I’m still on XP with IE 8, and IE sometimes shuffles the favicons.
My most recent observation is FF 19.0 running on Win XP. The favicons aren’t in the address bar, but they appear in the tabs and on the Bookmarks menu. It appears that the right icon shows on the tabs (I’m guessing it shows whatever it just got from the site), but they still get mixed up on the Bookmarks menu.
This is the first I’ve been aware that other browsers have a similar problem. I don’t use other browsers much.
ETA: P.S.: I wonder how many SDMB readers, especially younger ones, know where the name rowrrbazzle comes from?
NOT a younger reader (I’m 59), but let’s just say I seriously considered Churchy la Femme as a Username