diff --git a/assets/css/browser-solidity.css b/assets/css/browser-solidity.css
index 207724c333..42d9471432 100644
--- a/assets/css/browser-solidity.css
+++ b/assets/css/browser-solidity.css
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ body {
 
 #header #optionViews .pre {
     word-wrap: break-word;
-    background-color: #efefef;
+    background-color: #C6CFF7;
     font-family: monospace;
     border-radius: 3px;
     display: inline-block;
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ body {
 }
 
 #header #gist {
-    background-color: #efefef;
+    background-color: #C6CFF7;
     font-size: 12px;
     padding: 0.25em;
     color: black;
diff --git a/assets/js/app.js b/assets/js/app.js
index ae3cec0453..176f98b030 100644
--- a/assets/js/app.js
+++ b/assets/js/app.js
@@ -49,31 +49,31 @@
 			syncQueryParams();
 
 			// ------------------ gist load ----------------
-
-			function getGistId(str) {
-				var idr = /[0-9A-Fa-f]{8,}/;
-				var match = idr.exec(str)[0];
-				return match;
-			}
+
+			function getGistId(str) {
+				var idr = /[0-9A-Fa-f]{8,}/;
+				var match = idr.exec(str);
+				return match ? match[0] : null;
+			}
 
 			var queryParams = getQueryParams();
-			var loadingFromGist = false;
-			if (queryParams['gist']) {
-				var gistId;
+			var loadingFromGist = false;
+			if (typeof queryParams['gist'] != undefined) {
+				var gistId;
 				if (queryParams['gist'] === '') {
-					var str = prompt("Enter the URL or ID of the Gist you would like to load.");
+					var str = prompt("Enter the URL or ID of the Gist you would like to load.");
 					if (str !== '') {
 						gistId = getGistId( str );
 						loadingFromGist = !!gistId;
 					}
 				} else {
 					gistId = queryParams['gist'];
-					loadingFromGist = !!gistId;
-				}
-				$.ajax({
-					url: 'https://api.github.com/gists/'+gistId,
-					jsonp: 'callback',
-					dataType: 'jsonp',
+					loadingFromGist = !!gistId;
+				}
+				if (loadingFromGist) $.ajax({
+					url: 'https://api.github.com/gists/'+gistId,
+					jsonp: 'callback',
+					dataType: 'jsonp',
 					success: function(response){
 						if (response.data) {
 							for (var f in response.data.files) {
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@
 
 					var files = {};
 					var filesArr = getFiles();
-					var description = "Created using soleditor: Realtime Ethereum Contract Compiler and Runtime. Load this file by pasting this gists URL or ID at https://chriseth.github.io/browser-solidity/#gist=";
+					var description = "Created using browser-solidity: Realtime Ethereum Contract Compiler and Runtime. \n Load this file by pasting this gists URL or ID at https://chriseth.github.io/browser-solidity/#version=" + getQueryParams().version + "&optimize="+ getQueryParams().optimize +"&gist=";
 
 					for(var f in filesArr) {
 						files[fileNameFromKey(filesArr[f])] = {
@@ -734,6 +734,7 @@
 			var worker = null;
 			var loadVersion = function(version) {
 				$('#version').text("(loading)");
+				updateQueryParams({version: version});
 				var isFirefox = typeof InstallTrigger !== 'undefined';
 				if (document.location.protocol != 'file:' && Worker !== undefined && isFirefox) {
 					// Workers cannot load js on "file:"-URLs and we get a
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index ccfa36d090..8c6b0eac04 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
 					</div>
 					<div id="publishView">
 						<p><button id="gist" title="Publish all files as public gist on github.com"><i class="fa fa-github"></i> Publish Gist</button> Publish all open files to an anonymous github gist.</p>
-						<p>You can also load a gist by adding the following <span class="pre">?gist=GIST_ID</span> to your url, where GIST_ID is the id of the gist to load.</p>
+						<p>You can also load a gist by adding the following <span class="pre">#gist=GIST_ID</span> to your url, where GIST_ID is the id of the gist to load.</p>
 					</div>
 					<div id="envView">
 						<span id="executionContext">