Browser Icons with Links on Desktop

How can I create desktop links/icons for specific Internet browser
links? Back in the XP days, I could "Send To" or "Save As" a given
browser page to the Desktop, where a new icon would be created on my
Desktop that I could rename and position.
I can't do that anymore with either FireFox or Chrome in Win7...
Please advise. TIA


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"MikeCopeland" wrote in message
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How can I create desktop links/icons for specific Internet browser
links? Back in the XP days, I could "Send To" or "Save As" a given
browser page to the Desktop, where a new icon would be created on my
Desktop that I could rename and position.
I can't do that anymore with either FireFox or Chrome in Win7...
Please advise. TIA



If you go to a site using IE, just grab the icon at the left of the URL in
the address bar and drag it to the desktop. Not sure if that works with FF
or Chrome. If not, just use IE to create the shortcut icon.

Or, you can right click on the Desktop | New | Shortcut and paste the
address in.
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On 10/8/2014 5:52 PM, Bruce Hagen wrote:
"MikeCopeland" wrote in message
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How can I create desktop links/icons for specific Internet browser
links? Back in the XP days, I could "Send To" or "Save As" a given
browser page to the Desktop, where a new icon would be created on my
Desktop that I could rename and position.
I can't do that anymore with either FireFox or Chrome in Win7...
Please advise. TIA



If you go to a site using IE, just grab the icon at the left of the URL
in the address bar and drag it to the desktop. Not sure if that works
with FF or Chrome. snip


Yes it does.


Or, you can right click on the Desktop | New | Shortcut and paste the
address in.

In article , lid says...
How can I create desktop links/icons for specific Internet browser
links? Back in the XP days, I could "Send To" or "Save As" a given
browser page to the Desktop, where a new icon would be created on my
Desktop that I could rename and position.
I can't do that anymore with either FireFox or Chrome in Win7...
Please advise. TIA



If you go to a site using IE, just grab the icon at the left of the URL in
the address bar and drag it to the desktop. Not sure if that works with FF
or Chrome. If not, just use IE to create the shortcut icon.

Or, you can right click on the Desktop | New | Shortcut and paste the
address in.

For the record, categorically refuse to use IE, as it's always been
such a target for hackers and virii. 8{{
My browsers are FF, Chrome and Safari.

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"MikeCopeland" wrote in message
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In article , lid says...
How can I create desktop links/icons for specific Internet browser
links? Back in the XP days, I could "Send To" or "Save As" a given
browser page to the Desktop, where a new icon would be created on my
Desktop that I could rename and position.
I can't do that anymore with either FireFox or Chrome in Win7...
Please advise. TIA



If you go to a site using IE, just grab the icon at the left of the URL
in
the address bar and drag it to the desktop. Not sure if that works with
FF
or Chrome. If not, just use IE to create the shortcut icon.

Or, you can right click on the Desktop | New | Shortcut and paste the
address in.

For the record, categorically refuse to use IE, as it's always been
such a target for hackers and virii. 8{{
My browsers are FF, Chrome and Safari.


Well, Bob I confirmed my instructions will work with FF and Chrome and there
is still the Right Click on the Desktop option.
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~Bruce

On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:24:25 -0500 "Bob I" wrote in
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Yes it does.

It does in Chrome, but it looks like they've changed it. Clicking the
icon you dragged from the address bar no longer goes directly to the
referenced page. Instead, it displays the url in a new frame but I have
to copy/paste it to the address bar to actuall view the page. That may be
the result of some setting I changed inadvertantly.

MikeCopeland wrote:

For the record, categorically refuse to use IE, as it's always been
such a target for hackers and virii. 8{{ My browsers are FF, Chrome
and Safari.

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On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 15:37:53 -0700, MikeCopeland wrote:

How can I create desktop links/icons for specific Internet browser
links? Back in the XP days, I could "Send To" or "Save As" a given
browser page to the Desktop, where a new icon would be created on my
Desktop that I could rename and position.

Do you want links, or the actual pages? "Save As" saves the actual
pages.

To create a link, the most straightforward way is: with your mouse,
grab the tiny icon in the location bar, just to the left of the URL,
and drag it to your desktop.

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