04 October 2008

How To Quickly Create A Desktop Shortcut Of A Web Site In Google Chrome

by Gopinath on Oct.04, 2008 @ 3:07 PM IST, under Browsers, Google Chrome.

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Few days ago we wrote an article on creating desktop shortcuts of a web site using IE and Firefox. Here is a similar trick for Google Chrome Browser to create desktop shortcuts easily

Open Google Chrome browser and browse to the page that you want to create a short cut
Resize the browser so that you can see both desktop and browser
Drag and drop the bookmark icon on the left of the address bar on your desktop. The shortcut will be created.

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venkat
October 5th, 2008

Another way in chrome is by creating application shortcuts ,we can create shortcut to the website.Open Google Chrome click Control Page Menu> create Application Shortcuts.
Vijay
October 16th, 2008

Easiest way…. Drag and drop – Done.

Nice…
tommysox
October 11th, 2009

This is handy, but…The shortcuts I made opened in IE (my default browser).
Eliot
November 29th, 2009

This does not work in the mac version of Chrome.
6r0pius
December 21st, 2009

“This does not work in the mac version of Chrome.”

Crap!!!
Bobby
June 18th, 2010

It does work in Chrome for MAC – just figured out how…. You save the shortcut in one of your bookmarks folder. Then open the bookmarks folder and drag and drop to the desktop from there!

Enjoy!