- #HOW TO MAKE DESKTOP SHORTCUT FOR FIREFOX ARCHIVE#
- #HOW TO MAKE DESKTOP SHORTCUT FOR FIREFOX FULL#
- #HOW TO MAKE DESKTOP SHORTCUT FOR FIREFOX WINDOWS#
The shortcut should remain on the taskbar. Right click the shortcut, and choose Pin to Taskbar.Ĭlose out of all Firefox windows. You’ll see a newly created Mozilla Firefox shortcut. Select Mozilla Firefox.lnk and choose Extract To. Under System you should see System Type: 64-bit Operating System or System Type: 32-bit Operating System (x86 is the same as x32)
If you’re not sure, click Start, right-click Computer and choose Properties. Either way, the steps should be very similar.Ĭhoose your computer’s architecture. I use WinRAR, but WinZip is a common program too. Once the file is downloaded, double click it.
#HOW TO MAKE DESKTOP SHORTCUT FOR FIREFOX ARCHIVE#
Download this pre-formatted Mozilla Firefox Shortcut archive and follow the steps below to have your Firefox taskbar group back in line. Since all you humble folks out there have lives too, I’ve taken the liberty of doing all the dirty work for you. If you want to do this, copy a shortcut we create through the installer, That set on the shortcut you pin, grouping won’t work. Shortcuts have an internal ID associated with them for the taskbar. It took some searching to figure out just why clicking the shortcut I made myself kept producing a second Firefox icon, but I finally found my answer. Upon clicking the shortcut, a separate instance of the program is started and isn’t grouped with the shortcut icon. The shortcut is definitely pointing to Firefox. “I have no use for one!” I thought to myself, having every intention of pinning it to the taskbar. Microsoft MVP Consumer Security 2004 - 2016.
#HOW TO MAKE DESKTOP SHORTCUT FOR FIREFOX WINDOWS#
ex: 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe' 'Microsoft Windows Insider MVP.
#HOW TO MAKE DESKTOP SHORTCUT FOR FIREFOX FULL#
When I installed Firefox 4 Beta 11, I decided untick the box on the final installation screen asking me if I wanted the installer to create a desktop icon. Try including the full path to your Firefox exe in the target field of your shortcut. But that’s not what this tutorial is about. They get all messy and unorganized and I’m way to lazy to pick and choose what I do and don’t use. It might not look like it from my screenshots but I really hate having multitudes of icons on my desktop. If you have experienced the same issue, keep reading for the fix. Later after creating and pinning a Firefox shortcut to the taskbar, I found that it launched a separate instance of the program and did not group correctly. name : Create an application shortcut on the desktop _shortcut : src : C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe dest : C:\Users\Public\Desktop\Mozilla Firefox.lnk icon : C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe,0 - name : Create the same shortcut using environment variables _shortcut : description : The Mozilla Firefox web browser src : '%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe' dest : '%Public%\Desktop\Mozilla Firefox.lnk' icon : '%ProgramFiles\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe,0' directory : '%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox' hotkey : Ctrl+Alt+F - name : Create an application shortcut for an executable in PATH to your desktop _shortcut : src : cmd.exe dest : Desktop\Command prompt.lnk - name : Create an application shortcut for the Ansible website _shortcut : src : '%ProgramFiles%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe' dest : '%UserProfile%\Desktop\Ansible website.lnk' arguments : -new-window directory : '%ProgramFiles%\Google\Chrome\Application' icon : '%ProgramFiles%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe,0' hotkey : Ctrl+Alt+A - name : Create a URL shortcut for the Ansible website _shortcut : src : dest : '%Public%\Desktop\Ansible website.When I installed Firefox, I decided to untick the installation option asking to create a Firefox desktop icon. Controlling how Ansible behaves: precedence rules.Collections in the Theforeman Namespace.Collections in the T_systems_mms Namespace.Collections in the Servicenow Namespace.Collections in the Purestorage Namespace.Collections in the Openvswitch Namespace.Collections in the Netapp_eseries Namespace.Collections in the Kubernetes Namespace.Collections in the Junipernetworks Namespace.Collections in the F5networks Namespace.Collections in the Containers Namespace.