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How does pin to taskbar work?

thanatica
Making moves

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.

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Agentvirtuel
Collaborator

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/highlig...

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

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.

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Gendalph
Making moves

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.