topic Re: How does pin to taskbar work? in Discussions

How does pin to taskbar work?

thanatica — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:18:29 GMT

In the latest release notes, it says,

"On Windows, Firefox now supports running websites as web apps pinned directly to the taskbar"

So, how do I actually do that?..

Just to be clear, I already tried:

Dragging a tab (pinned or not) to the taskbar - this creates a bog standard new window, just as it always has.
Pinning a regular Firefox window on the taskbar - this just does the standard Windows thing, as it does for any application.

It's important that if you're proud of a new feature, to explain how to actually use it. Otherwise it might as well not exist, and development time was completely wasted. That'd be a shame, and it seems like it could be a useful feature.

Re: How does pin to taskbar work?

Agentvirtuel — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:06:08 GMT

Hello

About, Add tab to taskbar.
Take a look at the video https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/where-s-firefox-going-next-you-tell-us/m-p/103478/highlight/true#M40173

An subject.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/firefox-labs/give-web-apps-in-firefox-a-try-on-labs-and-tell-us-what-you/m-p/101900

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/143.0/releasenotes

On Windows, Firefox now supports running websites as web apps pinned directly to the taskbar. These are sites that you can pin and run as simplified windows directly from the taskbar without losing access to your installed add-ons. This feature is not currently available for Firefox installs from the Microsoft Store.

For information purposes.
Firefox 143 release, the preference, browser.taskbarTabs.enabled, set to true, by defaut.

Re: How does pin to taskbar work?

Gendalph — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:03:50 GMT

I have a related question: how do I make pinned tabs respect the URL? In my case I want to pin Twitch, but I don't want it to open the front page, I want it to open the Following page (/directory/following).

I edited the shortcut, but when I launch it, I still end up on the front page.

This limits the usability of the feature for me.

Edit: you can edit taskbartabs/taskbartabs.json in your profile with the desired URL, *then* it works.

Re: How does pin to taskbar work?

pasqahalwaus — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:06:12 GMT

Where is that file located? I have this problem and I can't even edit the shortcut address because I run into the character limit of Windows 10 shortcut target field.

Edit: Okay I found it in %AppData%\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\jxlot6v0.default-release\taskbartabs. It had two entries for the website I pinned with the same wrong address. I removed both of them since I had already unpinned the page, but the page wouldn't pin again.

After pinning another page the original page pinned to taskbar again, and again with two entries in the .json with wrong addresses. I edited the addresses and saved the .json, but that did not help.

I wonder what I can do.

Btw. sorry about the change in the font face. I changed it for the mono font for the directory but there's no way to revert back to the default font I know of here, so Helvetica it is.

Further edit: now it started directing to the right page, I wonder if it was the restart of FF. So we'll keep on editing the .json.

Re: How does pin to taskbar work?

Agentvirtuel — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:04:33 GMT

Hello

A similar discussion.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1540766

Re: How does pin to taskbar work?

mrsimon0007 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:13:04 GMT

Open Firefox and go to the site you want. Click the three-dot menu (⋮) in the URL bar → choose “Save Site as App.” This creates a standalone web app entry. Once created, you can right-click it in the Start Menu and choose Pin to taskbar. For a detailed step-by-step guide with screenshots, you can check this resource here.

Re: How does pin to taskbar work?

YodaKingpin — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:04:34 GMT

I somehow did this by mistake. How do I UNDO this and get my tab off of the taskbar and back into the firefox app? And, how do I turn this off permanently? I do not now and never will want this feature.

Re: How does pin to taskbar work?

pasqahalwaus — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:11:08 GMT

There's an icon in the address bar to unpin the web page from the taskbar.