Pin Site To Quick Launch

[Al]

FF 20.0.1 I would like a SEPARATE ICON for a certain webpage in the
"quick launch" section of the task bar. Nothing I googled seems to work,
is there a solution? I do not want just an item on the right-click FF
icon. Thank you.

[Al]

using Windows 7

[Keith Nuttle]

With Firefox open drag the URL of the site you want to the desktop.
This will create a short cut to your site.

Once the Short cut is created, make sure the tool bar is not locked, and
drag the short cut to the Quick launch bar.

Delete the icon on the desk top.

When you want to open your site just click on the Icon in the Quick
Launch bar


If you want to get fancy, right click on the Quick Launch icon select
change Icon and make the Icon something appropriate to the site.

[Al]

Thanks, but that doesn't work. That method puts the site in the right
click menu of the FF icon that was already in the Quick Launch area.
What I'd like is a SEPARATE icon for the particular site. But thanks.

[Danny]

Al <a...@nospam.net> wrote in
news:Md-dnT-FVokZFg_M...@mozilla.org:

Check out this: http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-pin-a-website-
link-to-windows-7-taskbar/

[Keith Nuttle]

No If you have done as I said, it creates a separate icon that when you
left click on it opens the site Firefox.

Yes Firefox is opened by the shortcut but there is no intermediate, it
goes directly to the site shown in the Shortcut.

If you look at the short cut icon properties created by dragging the URL
to the desktop and then to the Quick Launch toolbar, you will see the
icon is called Web document, with the URL listed.

If yo look at the Fire Fox Icon properties, it is called a short cut and
has the path to Firefox.

I did not change my system and it has been years since I used IE, but I
believe the Web Document Short cut uses the default browser. So if I
am right an IE is your default browser, the URL will open in IE not
Firefox as stated above.

[Ron Hunter]

On Win7, you can't do that. At least not any way I know of. But I bet
that Firefox can manage to open to a certain website based on a
parameter in the properties of the program.

[Swifty]

On 15/05/2013 02:03, Ron Hunter wrote:
> I bet that Firefox can manage to open to a certain website based on a
> parameter

That's exactly what I was going to suggest. My first try would be to
take a copy of the Firefox shortcut, and simply add the URL to the
target (in properties), adding quotes as necessary until it works.

[Keith Nuttle]

I talked to friends with Windows 7, and this short cut works the same as
it has since for the past several versions.

However there is a question about Windows 8 with its weird interface.

As I said open Firefox, Drag the URL to the desktop from the address
window in Firefox. This creates the Internet Document short cut. Now
drag the Internet document Icon from the desktop to the quick launch
toolbar.

It works I while I don't use that function I have done it many times.

[Ron Hunter]

It doesn't work on the taskbar (which is what I think the OP meant). It
just becomes a 'jump list' item in Firefox if it resides on the taskbar.
I don't use a quick launch toolbar on Win7. Might work as you said there.

[Al]

FF 21 This does NOT work. When the shortcut is dragged to the lower
left Quick Launch bar, it says "PIN TO FIREfOX", NOT "pin to taskbar" as
one would expect. The shortcut then becomes one of the items in the
right click menu of the Firefox icon that was already in the quick
launch bar.

This might work if there was no Firefox icon in the taskbar to begin
with, but I wanted both. Thank you for trying though!

[Danny]

Al <a...@nospam.net> wrote in
news:bPudnUoXl5XkGw7M...@mozilla.org:

>>>
>>> On Win7, you can't do that. At least not any way I know
>>> of. But I bet that Firefox can manage to open to a
>>> certain website based on a parameter in the properties of
>>> the program.
>>>
>

>FF 21 This does NOT work. When the shortcut is dragged to
>the lower left Quick Launch bar, it says "PIN TO FIREfOX",
>NOT "pin to taskbar" as one would expect. The shortcut then
>becomes one of the items in the right click menu of the
>Firefox icon that was already in the quick launch bar.
>
>This might work if there was no Firefox icon in the taskbar
>to begin with, but I wanted both. Thank you for trying
>though!
>

The version of FF is irrelevant, since this is a Windows 7
issue. And it does in fact work, if you do it right. For
example, set up a new shortcut on the desktop. Here's one I set
up to prove the point: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla
Firefox\firefox.exe" http://www.wnd.com

Once the shortcut has been completed, drag it to an empty slot
on the task bar. You will get a new FF icon on the taskbar.
Guaranteed.

[Danny]

Danny <dragons...@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:XnsA1C174D601817dr...@216.196.97.169:

You can also right-click on the new shortcut on the desktop and
select "pin to taskbar."

[Al]

Well, I'm happy for you! But in my FF, it is EXACTLY as I stated in my
post at 8:58 AM today.

[Danny]

>
>Well, I'm happy for you! But in my FF, it is EXACTLY as I
>stated in my post at 8:58 AM today.
>

It HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FIREFOX. IT IS A WINDOWS SHORTCUT!!!

[Al]

At this point, WHO CARES? On MY computer, with MY Firefox, creating a
WINDOWS shortcut, what you insisted upon does NOT work. And I did
EXACTLY what you suggested. I got TWO icons, one for FF, one for the
WINDOWS site shortcut. Either ONE will say "pin to taskbar" when dragged
down there, the other WILL NOT!

Know what? The hell with it. Thanks anyway!

[Peter Holsberg]

Keith Nuttle has written on 5/14/2013 8:03 PM:

Is it understood by all that Quick Launch and Task bar are different
animals? Just sayin'.

[Harry]

Al, if you're still monitoring this thread - try this - it works great for me...

Go to the web page you want to create a desktop link for. In the address box of that page there should be a small icon to the left of the address. For example, for this site, there is an icon of a lock next to the address: HTTPS://GROUPS.GOOGLE.COM....

Drag that icon (not the address itself, just the icon) to your desktop. When you click on that new icon now on your desktop it will open FF to the web page in question.

And let me mention that I am using Windows 7.

I hope that helps.

Harry

[Danny]

>
>Is it understood by all that Quick Launch and Task bar are
>different animals? Just sayin'.
>

Not really relevant. The OP said he was running Win 7, so
therefore he has a taskbar, regardless of whether he calls it a
quicklaunch bar or not. And the taskbar is to Win 7 what the
quicklaunch bar is to XP. And in many respects, their behavior
is the same.

In this particular case, if you create your shortcut properly,
it can be pinned to the taskbar, which is what the OP said he
wanted to do.

Just dragging a web address doesn't create a new icon on the
taskbar, but instead pins it to the existing browser icon.

Just sayin'.

[Danny]

Harry <harr...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:f851ae58-f7a0-44ae...@googlegroups.com:

That doesn't do him any good. He doesn't want it on the desktop.
He wants an icon on his taskbar that launches his browser and
takes him to a specific website.

All he has to do is set up a proper shortcut pointing to both
the browser and the URL he wants launched (e.g. "c:\program
files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe" http://www.wnd.com ) and pin
that shortcut to the taskbar. It doesn't matter that he already
has his browser pinned to the taskbar. This is a separate
shortcut, and has its own icon on the taskbar.

[Ron Hunter]

Terminology problem. The bar you are talking about is the taskbar.
There is also a quick launch toolbar which you can activate if you wish.
I have never used it on Win7 so I can't comment on just how that might
work differently, but you might explore it. You can make on with a
right click on the taskbar, and select 'new toolbar'. It might do what
you want to do.

[Ron Hunter]

Glad we could help you Al.

[Peter Holsberg]

Danny has written on 5/15/2013 11:22 PM:

> Harry <harr...@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:f851ae58-f7a0-44ae...@googlegroups.com:
>
>>Al, if you're still monitoring this thread - try this - it
>>works great for me...
>>
>>Go to the web page you want to create a desktop link for. In
>>the address box of that page there should be a small icon to
>>the left of the address. For example, for this site, there
>>is an icon of a lock next to the address:
>>HTTPS://GROUPS.GOOGLE.COM....
>>
>>Drag that icon (not the address itself, just the icon) to
>>your desktop. When you click on that new icon now on your
>>desktop it will open FF to the web page in question.
>>
>>And let me mention that I am using Windows 7.
>>
>>I hope that helps.
>>
>>Harry
>>
>
> That doesn't do him any good. He doesn't want it on the desktop.
> He wants an icon on his taskbar

He didn't say "taskbar"; he said "quick launch", a toolbar in the taskbar.

[Peter Holsberg]

Danny has written on 5/15/2013 11:09 PM:

>>
>>Is it understood by all that Quick Launch and Task bar are
>>different animals? Just sayin'.
>>
>
> Not really relevant. The OP said he was running Win 7, so
> therefore he has a taskbar, regardless of whether he calls it a
> quicklaunch bar or not. And the taskbar is to Win 7 what the
> quicklaunch bar is to XP.

Not so.

[Danny]

Peter Holsberg <pj...@pobox.com> wrote in
news:mailman.330.136872073...@lists.mozilla
.org:

To the non-technical, quicklaunch or taskbar--it's all the same
to them.

Once he specified he was running Windows 7, it really didn't
matter if he misnamed the taskbar as quicklaunch. In any case,
the method I outlined for him works on either a quicklaunch bar
or a task bar.

[Peter Holsberg]

Danny has written on 5/16/2013 4:37 PM:

Are we positive that the OP is "non-technical"?

[Peter Holsberg]

Al has written on 5/15/2013 8:58 AM:

Dragging a URL to the desktop creates an "Internet Shortcut (URL)"
rather than a "Shortcut (lnk)". Windows treats them differently.

[Keith Nuttle]

On 5/16/2013 7:16 PM, Peter Holsberg wrote:
> On 5/14/2013 9:03 PM, Ron Hunter wrote:
>> >>>On 5/14/2013 2:07 PM, Al wrote:
>>> >>>>FF 20.0.1 I would like a SEPARATE ICON for a certain webpage in the
>>> >>>>"quick launch" section of the task bar. Nothing I googled seems to work,
>>> >>>>is there a solution? I do not want just an item on the right-click FF
>>> >>>>icon. Thank you.
>> >>>
>> >>>On Win7, you can't do that. At least not any way I know of. But I bet
>> >>>that Firefox can manage to open to a certain website based on a
>> >>>parameter in the properties of the program.
>> >>>
>>>
>>>I talked to friends with Windows 7, and this short cut works the same as
>>>it has since for the past several versions.
>>>
>>>However there is a question about Windows 8 with its weird interface.
>>>
>>>As I said open Firefox, Drag the URL to the desktop from the address
>>>window in Firefox. This creates the Internet Document short cut. Now
>>>drag the Internet document Icon from the desktop to the quick launch
>>>toolbar.
>>>
>>>It works I while I don't use that function I have done it many times.

One more time; to put a web page into the Quick Launch Toolbar.

Go to any place on the desktop, and right click. From the pop up menu,
Select NEW, SHORTCUT.
Type or copy the full URL into the window that says "Type the Location
of the item." ie www.google.com,

Click Next.

Add the name you want shown for the short cut. ie Google

And then click finish.

You will now have a Windows short cut on your desktop, that will use the
default browser to open the Web Document (URL).

This can be placed on the Quick launch toolbar, or the equivalent in
Window 7. Probably Windows 8 since it has been part of the Windows
operating system since Window 3.1 I believe I know since at least
Windows XP.

This is a longcut that produces the same results as the instruction in
my original post.

Since it uses the default Windows browser it will not attach itself to
the short cut for the Firefox program. If you want it to open in
Firefox make sure Firefox is your default browser in the Windows
operating system

[Ron Hunter]

Sorry, but in Win 7, it pins a jump list item to the Firefox icon on the
Taskbar.

[Danny]

Ron Hunter <rphu...@charter.net> wrote in
news:ppmdnYCGE_HVGAjM...@mozilla.org:

>>
>> This is a longcut that produces the same results as the
>> instruction in my original post.
>>
>> Since it uses the default Windows browser it will not
>> attach itself to the short cut for the Firefox program.
>> If you want it to open in Firefox make sure Firefox is
>> your default browser in the Windows operating system
>>
>Sorry, but in Win 7, it pins a jump list item to the Firefox
>icon on the Taskbar.
>

Yeah, it isn't really a PROGRAM shortcut. It is a URL shortcut.
If the OP wants to pin the thing to the taskbar, as opposed to
pinning it to a program already on the taskbar, then he needs to
do a proper PROGRAM shortcut. It will contain BOTH the browser
program and the web URL.. liks so ...

"c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe"

http://www.adobe.com

This shortcut will pin to the taskbar. As you said, a URL will
not.

[Al]

Exactly correct.

[Peter Holsberg]

Keith Nuttle has written on 5/16/2013 7:56 PM:

>
> One more time; to put a web page into the Quick Launch Toolbar.
>
> Go to any place on the desktop, and right click. From the pop up menu,
> Select NEW, SHORTCUT.
> Type or copy the full URL into the window that says "Type the Location
> of the item." ie www.google.com,
>
> Click Next.
>
> Add the name you want shown for the short cut. ie Google
>
> And then click finish.
>
> You will now have a Windows short cut on your desktop, that will use the
> default browser to open the Web Document (URL).

Agreed.

> This can be placed on the Quick launch toolbar, or the equivalent in
> Window 7.

There is no equivalent unless you mean the Taskbar.

> Since it uses the default Windows browser it will not attach itself to
> the short cut for the Firefox program.

When I drag that shortcut to the Taskbar, I get a popup that says "Pin
to Firefox" (Firefox is my default browser).

[barryk...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:57:56 PM UTC-5, Harry wrote:
> Al, if you're still monitoring this thread - try this - it works great for me...

> Drag that icon (not the address itself, just the icon) to your desktop.

<<snippage>>

> I hope that helps.
>
>
>
> Harry

Well I'll be damned!
Thank you Harry for cutting to the chase.