Since IE7 inflicted itself on my computers I've noticed that some websites (not here though) have a little logo that appears next to the URL in the address bar and on the tabs.

How do you do that? Quite like it as it makes the tabs for each different site easy to spot if you've a few open.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A favicon (short for "favorites icon"), also known as a page icon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many recent web browsers can then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser's URL bar, next to the site's name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a tabbed document interface.

Favicon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

they're not an IE7 thing, they've been around for ages

Any website can do it by uploading an image and then referencing it with an html "shortcut icon" tag. Your browser then remembers the icon for that URL.

Edit: Andy beat me to it

Favicon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

they're not an IE7 thing, they've been around for ages

yes, been around a while but IE6 had problems remembering them when added to favourites. IE7 has this problem solved, so if your favourite websites have them then as you visit them the icon is added to the favourites list.

Ah that explains it! My old IE6 did remember them at first then some time around the SP2 update it stopped. Now I have IE7 it works again, mystery solved

Do they try to sneak cookies in with it and my Spyware Doctor is stopping it?

Theres me trying to be on a diet and you go and talk about sneaking cookies

Theres me trying to be on a diet and you go and talk about sneaking cookies

Did someone mention cookies?

Did someone mention cookies?

grr

*runs downstairs to raid the fridge*

Thanks for the Wikipedia URL