Author: Martin

Create Website Desktop Shortcuts In Firefox

firefox It was a tad easier to create website desktop shortcuts in the Firefox web browser before the Mozilla team decided to change the default behavior when dragging and dropping tabs from Firefox to an empty space of the computer desktop. This would have created a website desktop shortcut in previous versions but will spawn a new Firefox window with that url in the first ab instead now.

It is still possible to create shortcuts by dragging and dropping the favicon to an empty space on the computer desktop or one of the folders on the computer. A more versatile option is the Deskcut add-on for the Firefox web browser which adds a right-click option to the browser that allows a user to create a shortcut on the computer that points to the selected website.

Deskcut comes exactly with the set of features that one would expect from an add-on like this. It adds the option to create a website shortcut to the right-click menu which will create a shortcut of the website in the active tab. The user can either manually select the name and location that shortcut should be saved in or edit the options once to set a permanent location and name for the shortcuts.

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The add-on can generate the filename of the shortcut from the page title, page url or prompt the user to enter a name. It is furthermore possible to add data or time to the filename and strip, encode or replace invalid characters from the shortcut name. A path can be set once so that all shortcuts are automatically saved in that location.

The main advantage of using the Deskcut add-on over the manual drag and drop solution is that the add-on works in fullscreen mode as well. It is more comfortable to create the shortcut from the right-click menu than to resize the Firefox window to be able to drag and drop the favicon to the computer desktop. It would even be more complicate if the shortcut should be saved in another folder on the computer’s hard drive.