Following a bit of discussion about this on the Archive mailing list, I've done some more experiments here, and I'm wondering whether or not the intermittent appearance of thumbnails is due (possibly in part) to the fully (or not) qualified domain name in the URL.
As it very rarely works here on my Iyonix, I thought it was something to do with not thumbnailing local sites (ie. pages on my hard drive or local intranet). My default homepage is "http://intranet"; which resolves to "http://avalon.vigay.com/"; (on my machine both names are entries in the Hosts file pointing to a local server, so no external access is required). I've never had thumbnails appear in the history list, even when clicking on links on my intranet page. However, if I went directly to an external URL (such as news.bbc.co.uk) then I'd get the thumbnails ok. Anyway, on a whim I decided to change the homepage to http://avalon.vigay.com (remembering that it still resolves to exactly the same place/route) and lo-and-behold, NetSurf starts thumnailing, even the intranet page. Change back to http://intranet and it doesn't thumbnail the history. This is 100% repeatable on this machine here, and the only difference I can spot is the URL - the destination is exactly the same machine and page. Not sure if this gives a clue as to the intermittent history thumbnails but thought I'd report it here, as it's about the only consistent way of causing the problem I can find. Paul
