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Having quick access to oft-used or hard to call back websites can relieve you time and frustration. Whether you use Chrome, Firefox, or Border, you can add a shortcut to any site right to your Windows 10 taskbar or Outset menu.

Google Chrome

Navigate to the website you want to pivot. Click the three vertical dots in the top right of Chrome, hover your mouse over "More than Tools," and click "Create Shortcut."

Create a Shortcut in Chrome

In the pop-up menu, change the name of the shortcut if desired, and click "Create." This volition automatically create an icon on your Windows desktop.

By default, Chrome will open the web page equally a tab in a normal Chrome browser window. You can bank check the "Open up as Window" option to accept Chrome open the folio in its own window with its ain taskbar icon when you click the shortcut.

Creating a Shortcut in Chrome

From your desktop, right-click on the shortcut, and either click "Pivot to Kickoff" or "Pin to Taskbar." You can now delete the shortcut on your desktop.

If you lot set the website to open as a window, it will open immediately as its own window. Yous can and so right-click its shortcut on your taskbar and select "Pin to Taskbar" without using the desktop shortcut.

Pin Chrome Page to Start or Taskbar

Firefox

Create a shortcut to Firefox on your desktop. You can do this by typing "Firefox" into your Start menu, right-clicking on the icon, and clicking "Open up File Location."

Open Firefox File Location

In the new File Explorer window, right-click Firefox and click "Create Shortcut." A prompt will appear, proverb, "Windows can't create a shortcut here. Practise you want the shortcut to be placed on the desktop instead?" Click "Yes."

Create a Firefox Browser Shortcut

Right-click the new Firefox icon on your desktop, and click "Properties." In the "Target" field, insert the full URL of the website you want to pin afterwards the quotation mark. Hither'southward an example of what the "Target" field should look like:

"C:\Programme Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" https://www.howtogeek.com

Click "OK."

Direct Firefox Shortcut to Specific Website

From your desktop, correct-click on the shortcut, and either click "Pin to Start" or "Pin to Taskbar." Y'all tin can now delete the shortcut on your desktop.

The New Edge

Microsoft's new Chromium-based Edge browser works similarly to Google Chrome. To pivot any website to a taskbar, simply open up the "Settings and More than" menu (Alt+F, or click on the three horizontal dots in the top correct of your browser). Hover your mouse over "More tools" and click "Pin to Taskbar."

Pin to Taskbar in Edge (New)

Additionally, the new Edge has a keen new characteristic called "Launch Taskbar Pinning Sorcerer," which yous can see right beneath "Pin to Taskbar." Click this, and Edge will guide you lot through a short menu that lets you pin the most popular websites and Microsoft spider web apps to your taskbar.

Classic Edge

You tin can pin pages to the taskbar or Start menu in the original version of Microsoft Edge that came with Windows x.

Navigate to the website y'all want to pin to your taskbar. Click the three vertical dots in the top right of Edge, and click "Pin This Page to the Taskbar." You can at present delete the shortcut on your desktop.

Pin This Page to the Taskbar in Edge

Navigate to the website yous desire to pin to the Start menu. Click the iii vertical dots in the top right of Border, hover your mouse over "More Tools," and click "Pivot This Folio to Commencement." Y'all tin can at present delete the shortcut on your desktop.

Pin This Page to Start in Edge