[Did You Know] Google Chrome Allows You to Pin Websites on Windows Taskbar, Start Menu and Desktop
When Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), one of its noticeable features was the ability to pin website shortcuts on Windows 7 Taskbar, Start Menu and Desktop. You can simply drag-n-drop a running tab from IE window to Windows 7 Taskbar or Start ORB to pin the shortcut. There are also other options available which are given in following article:
[Did You Know] You Can Pin Websites to Taskbar and Start Menu Using Internet Explorer
Did you know Google Chrome also comes with a similar feature? Actually its a very old feature present in Google Chrome but very few people are aware of it. Thanks to our reader “Aditya” for reminding us about this feature.
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Google Chrome also allows you to add any website shortcut to Windows Taskbar, Start Menu or Desktop. If you don’t know about this feature and want to know how to add a website shortcut to Windows Taskbar, Start Menu or Desktop using Google Chrome, check out following simple steps:
1. Open your desired website in Google Chrome and click on Settings button present in the end of Chrome toolbar.
2. Now select “Tools -> Create application shortcuts” or “Tools -> Create shortcut” option.
UPDATE: In newer versions of Google Chrome, the option has been moved to “More Tools -> Add to Desktop“.
3. It’ll open a new dialog box where you can select the desired location to put website shortcut. You can create the shortcut in following 3 places:
- Desktop
- Start Menu
- Pin to Taskbar
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4. After selecting the desired location, click on “Create” button.
That’s it. Chrome will create the shortcuts in your selected locations and will launch the website in a special view of Chrome which shows only the titlebar and doesn’t show tabbar or toolbar.
You can press “Ctrl+T” keys together or right-click on titlebar and select “Open browser window” option to open a normal Chrome window.
So did you know about this feature of Google Chrome or was it new for you? Feel free to share your feedback…
Also Check:
[Windows 10 Tip] Pin Websites to Start Menu or Taskbar Using Microsoft Edge
I had been looking for a program like this (since Mozilla canceled their Prism project) to do those things, but ended up creating an Adobe Air app for the site. Well, now it’s way easier with Chrome!
Thanks VG.
Thanks VG~ Discovering Chrome
The link Opens like a Application!!
Too bad they don’t have cool jumplist actions ike IE9
awesome but are there tricks like this in Firefox?? dont forget us too…
I am using Windows 8 and my default browser is chrome, i want to pin a website to my start screen but when i choose “create application shortcut” I only get 2 options which are “Desktop and pin to taskbar” it does not give me the choice to pin to start screen.
I did try doing the 2 options in the hope that it would automatically pin to my start screen too (that didn’t work at all).
Please can someone help me as i use a particular site quite a lot and would like to be able to access it from my start screen.
Hi Angela, to pin to taskbar in chrome, just create the shortcut to Desktop.
Than you can right click it, and Pin to Start.
After you can delete the shortcut.
Kardus, emptying your recycle bin will delete the tile from the start screen as well.
Nathan, it didn’t for me. Thanks for the tip Kardus! It helped!
Even if you pin a websit with chrome on Windows 7/8 taskbar, you will not see the special jumplists & notifications on icons as I.E.9/10/11 does. This is what I don’t like in Chrome.
If this feature of I.E9 comes to chrome, then it would definately a great browser for me.
But I like its special view in which pinned websites are launched. Even the pinned websites really looks like a desktop application.
I think Chrome should offer the option to open in a regular window, not just the special no-buttons window. They should make it easy to choose which type of window you want.
if you dont have a pint to start screen, try using pin to desktop. and when you already pinned it to the desktop. right click the icon and click pin to start.
The problem is, clicking on Settings on my computer doesn’t give you a tools.
I have Chrome and Windows 7. Now what?
I’ve gone by the directions for Chrome, Windows 7 to pin a site to the toolbar, but when I click on More Tools, and Add to Desktop
I do not get a dialogue box to choose toolbar as the site I want the short cut. I’ve read your directions over and over and tried and tried and tired, and after Add to Desktop, a box opens where you click on the blue button Add. What am I doing wrong? I hunted many times to learn to do this, and I thought
I had the correct site, but it doesn’t work HELP.
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Dear VG, Thanks for the info.
I see a Guest user in “Current User (button) > Guest”. Is there any way to make a profile shortcut on desktop to directly open this Guest user? Like adding some commands to the “Target” in the shortcut’s properties like we directly open Incognito windows?
^^ You can add following to Target field:
–profile-directory=”Guest Profile”
When you’ll launch the shortcut, it’ll open profile manager where you can select Guest user. This is the closest solution I can suggest.
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