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how to pin a Firefox desktop shortcut to the taskbar in win 8.1

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vancouverron
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To create a shortcut to a specific url is really easy. However, I have not found a way to pin this shortcut to the taskbar. For example, IE lets you drag the url to either the desktop OR taskbar directly. I have not found a way to get this done with Firefox. Right-clicking on the desktop shortcut does not show the "pin to taskbar" option. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

To create a shortcut to a specific url is really easy. However, I have not found a way to pin this shortcut to the taskbar. For example, IE lets you drag the url to either the desktop OR taskbar directly. I have not found a way to get this done with Firefox. Right-clicking on the desktop shortcut does not show the "pin to taskbar" option. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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This is on Windows 7:

When I drag from the padlock/globe in Firefox's address bar to the Windows Taskbar, it gets added to the right-click menu for my pinned Firefox program icon. I guess that makes sense.

If I drag from the padlock/globe in Firefox's address bar to the desktop first, and create shortcut there, then when I drag it to the Windows Taskbar, it still gets added to the right-click menu for my pinned Firefox program icon. Hmm...

If I open the Windows Favorites folder and drag from there, same thing.

I unpinned Firefox from the Taskbar and tried dragging the padlock/globe from the address bar, and it pinned Firefox to the Taskbar in a strange, dysfunctional way.

I think this might work more like IE if Firefox is not set as the default browser, but it was not convenient for me to test that.

vancouverron
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Thanks, jscher2000, for your quick response. In win 8.1 I cannot drag from the padlock/globe to the taskbar. What happens is that I can drag to the desktop without problems. As soon as I continue dragging to the taskbar I get the red circle with diagonal line through it. I also tried it by unpinning Firefox from the taskbar - same result, i.e. no joy. The workaround right now is to us IE for this particular URL but - while that works - that seems like the wrong answer...

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I'm sorry, why do you need to use IE for the URL? Is it a page that does not work well in Firefox?

vancouverron
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Sorry, I did not mean to confuse the issue: Since I cannot get Firefox to work in this case I resorted to using IE. Of course I would much prefer for Firefox to be able to do this (i.e. dragging the URL from the padlock/globe to the taskbar). Since I have not been able to accomplish this with Firefox plan B is to use IE for this particular purpose.