CNET How To blog front page. Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET You can add bookmarks, favicons to the toolbar, or just type the Web address to get to your favorite Web site.
Add desktop shortcut button will now show up; Method 2. Click on the user icon in the upper left corner of a Chrome instance. Go to the user profile for which you want to create a desktop shortcut, and click to open that Chrome instance. In the new Chrome instance click the icon again in the upper left corner. Or a shortcut to open an url directly from desktop? (called.webloc files, should be avaible when saving webpage) – lovethebomb Dec 10 '12 at 9:02 I had the application shortcut reference: it's a feature on chrome for windows.
But what if you want something even faster? Evidently the development team behind Google Chrome feels the same way. Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET Thankfully, the process is very simple: just navigate to a Web site you want extra-fast access to, and then click the wrench icon near the top right-hand corner of the Chrome window. From there, pick Tools and then select Create application shortcuts. Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET.
I believe the feature that vmars is looking for is the ability to grab the favicon in IE's address bar and drag it to your desktop or folder to create a shortcut. Chrome has this ability (as do most browsers), but with Chrome you must grab the star in the address bar (since there is no favicon in this location). Unfortunately (or maybe not), the shortcut will open your default browser, no matter if you used IE, Chrome, Firefox to create the shortcut.
Whenever you click on one of these shortcuts, it will open in your default browser. Vlebaron, 12:59 น. Rlewisrn is correct BUT the file name reflects the URL, unlike a drag from Safari where the file name reflects the title of the page, which is much more useful. In general, saving is an area where Chrome still lags far behind Safari. Yeah this was driving me crazy in Ubuntu. It was the main blocker that prevented me from using Chrome.
I have to be able to drag urls into folders to create shortcuts. The bookmark trick does work. You save the page as a bookmark, then open the bookmarks manager and you can drag the bookmark to your folder or desktop (I hold down control and shift key to make sure it doesn't copy, have to do this in firefox, too). But an even quicker way is to control-H to open your browser history, and then just drag the url from there instead. No bookmarking required. Regordrawes, 6:41 น.
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I thought I'd add a new reply to this as Google search still shows this thread very high up on the search results for anybody looking for the answer! I'm assuming that an update was also needed as the simple answer to this query doesn't tie up with the original replies! To save a URL as a shortcut you need to restore down your Google Chrome window so you can move it around to see the desktop or your chosen folder behind it. Highlight the whole URL and drag it to the desktop or folder which will create an instant shortcut on your computer.
Trying to drag the Star icon for bookmarking does not work. Lee898 17/5/2012, 3:54 น. I have the very same problem and it is maddening.
What's more, it's not only desktop shortcuts (.url) that are affected.the same problem plagues.lnk shortcuts, if they point to a web page Here is my workaround: 1- I click on the shortcut. 2- Chrome opens, shows the URL in the omnibox, and does nothing else. The little semi-circle just spins.
3- WORKAROUND: I drag the 'globe' to the new tab button and drop it there. The page opens. What really bothers me about this is that Chrome used to open.url shortcuts just fine; it's only been the last three months or so that I experience this problem. Looks like there's no solution, unless Google decides to do something about it. Hornlo 5/9/2012, 10:38 น. Chrome 20.0.1132.57, Fedora 14 linux In Firefox you can drag URL from address bar to desktop or into a folder to create either a.copy. of the page OR a.link.
to the page. However, in Chrome, you can only drag a copy of content, to save as a file.
You.can. drag a link from bookmarks or history to the desktop, but that turns a simple drag-and-drop procedure which I use quite often into an elaborate multi-step process. Are there any plans for Chrome to support dragging link to desktop / folder?
01skiller 17/9/2012, 8:51 น. I just figured this out for myself and it wasn't from any help given here. It would certainly help if some of the morons here calling us the morons could give detailed, explicit instructions like this: 1.
Open the website in chrome you want to make a desktop link to 2. Left-Click the favicon equivalent (the picture of the piece of paper on the address bar just left of the url (that is missing.) 3. While still holding down the left-click on the target, drag-n-drop it from the address bar to your desktop This procedure is identical to that used in IE except you LEFT-CLICK-DRAG-N-DROP NOT right-click-drag-n-drop the link from the address bar.
Hope this helps the next person. (ไม่รู้จัก) 28/3/2013, 11:36 น.
(ไม่รู้จัก) 13/7/2013, 4:54 น.