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 IE9
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.
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 Wrench icon present in the end of Chrome toolbar.
2. Now select "Tools -> Create application shortcuts" option.
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
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...
Posted by: Vishal Gupta | Categories: Google Chrome
JrColas19
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.
Asrin475
Thanks VG~ Discovering Chrome
The link Opens like a Application!!
RA
Too bad they don't have cool jumplist actions ike IE9
Kyle
awesome but are there tricks like this in Firefox?? dont forget us too...
Aleksandar
But compared to IE 9 pin-tab,it's not better.
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Angela
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.
Furqy
thanx for this....Helped a lot
kardus
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.