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I've never had any problems creating short-cuts that link to the forum. The short-cuts automatically appear with the forum logo regardless of device, such as android tablet or Windows PCs.

For example this is how it appears on my (generic) android tablet.
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I just go my first ever smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S4) last week, and while I have no problem creating the forum shortcut on it, it is only in the form of a red flag rather than the desired logo - see below.
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Can any Samsung Galaxy owners shed any light on how to display the URL link with the site’s icon rather than the red flag?
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use chrome as your browser or Firefox it is always good to have more than one anyway.
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Communist infiltration. :shock:
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Many thanks IFGL, using the Chrome bookmark to create the shortcut did the trick.

However, now I appear to have the opposite problem on one of the Win7 PCs - when I made Chrome the default browser, all the URL shortcuts on the desktop reverted to the universal Chrome icon. :xcomputer:
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now that is easy to fix, I will have to look when i get into work though.
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The only solution I have found is to use Chrome create new shortcuts one at a time and delete the old ones. No big deal as there is only a half dozen or so.

It is interesting that Chrome creates application shortcuts, whereas those being replaced are web document shortcuts.
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Chrome is now my favourite browser, I do always have Firefox as a backup though, sometimes a feature may not work with one for some reason.
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