Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox
HTH, Rick Justice "Tomorrow's another day, another way!" "and if tomorrow never comes, problem solved!" Check your Dropbox folder. - Original Message - From: "Mike B." <mike9...@gmx.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi All, Okay, a long way of doing it, but here are steps for creating desktop URL shortcuts. Note: If the shortcuts are made with Firefox, the shortcut will only work if Firefox is your default browser. I'll post steps for shortcuts that can be assigned to open with a particular browser at a later time. There may be an easier way, but here is what I do to create a desktop icon for a web page. 1. Open your browser to the desired website. 2. Press, Alt + D, to move to and highlight the address bar , or pressing, F6, works as well. 3. Press, Control + C, to copy the URL to the clipboard. 4. Move to the desktop and make sure that nothing is selected. Either press F5 when on the desktop or hold down the control key and press the spacebar to deselect anything that is already selected. 5. Press the, applications / context menu key, / right mouse click, to bring up the context menu items. 6. Choose new from the menu and then choose create shortcut from the sub menu. 7. A 2 stage dialogue opens. The default field is address. Paste the address from the desired web page into the address field and tab once to the next button and press space bar. 8. A second page opens and the default field says 'type a name for the shortcut.' Type in a recognizable name for the shortcut and tab to next and press space bar. 9. A finish button should appear. Press space bar or enter on it and you are done. This is a bit convoluted, but it seems to work quite well. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sennt from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. - Original Message - From: Rick Justice To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi Mike, It appears that the only way to accomplish this is with drag and drop, at least in this version of Firefox. I found nothing in the program or a web search to show any provision for saving a website shortcut to the Desktop. You will have to use the method I described to you earlier. HTH, Rick Justice "Tomorrow's another day, another way!" "and if tomorrow never comes, problem solved!" - Original Message - From: "Mike B." <mb69ma...@charter.net> To: "Jaws-Users List" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:14 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi All, Running Windows 7, Firefox ESR 52.8, & J16 thru J2018. When you want to create a desktop shortcut from a website you visit regularly, how in the heck do you do it?! In IE11 you can get create desktop shortcut options in the context menu, or from the file menu, but with Firefox I can't find anywhere in the context or file menu that will allow me to create a desktop shortcut while on the website. So again, how is this done? All help will be a great hair saver, and immensely appreciated! LOL Thanks much. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox
Hi All, Okay, a long way of doing it, but here are steps for creating desktop URL shortcuts. Note: If the shortcuts are made with Firefox, the shortcut will only work if Firefox is your default browser. I'll post steps for shortcuts that can be assigned to open with a particular browser at a later time. There may be an easier way, but here is what I do to create a desktop icon for a web page. 1. Open your browser to the desired website. 2. Press, Alt + D, to move to and highlight the address bar , or pressing, F6, works as well. 3. Press, Control + C, to copy the URL to the clipboard. 4. Move to the desktop and make sure that nothing is selected. Either press F5 when on the desktop or hold down the control key and press the spacebar to deselect anything that is already selected. 5. Press the, applications / context menu key, / right mouse click, to bring up the context menu items. 6. Choose new from the menu and then choose create shortcut from the sub menu. 7. A 2 stage dialogue opens. The default field is address. Paste the address from the desired web page into the address field and tab once to the next button and press space bar. 8. A second page opens and the default field says 'type a name for the shortcut.' Type in a recognizable name for the shortcut and tab to next and press space bar. 9. A finish button should appear. Press space bar or enter on it and you are done. This is a bit convoluted, but it seems to work quite well. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sennt from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. - Original Message - From: Rick Justice To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi Mike, It appears that the only way to accomplish this is with drag and drop, at least in this version of Firefox. I found nothing in the program or a web search to show any provision for saving a website shortcut to the Desktop. You will have to use the method I described to you earlier. HTH, Rick Justice "Tomorrow's another day, another way!" "and if tomorrow never comes, problem solved!" - Original Message - From: "Mike B." <mb69ma...@charter.net> To: "Jaws-Users List" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:14 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi All, Running Windows 7, Firefox ESR 52.8, & J16 thru J2018. When you want to create a desktop shortcut from a website you visit regularly, how in the heck do you do it?! In IE11 you can get create desktop shortcut options in the context menu, or from the file menu, but with Firefox I can't find anywhere in the context or file menu that will allow me to create a desktop shortcut while on the website. So again, how is this done? All help will be a great hair saver, and immensely appreciated! LOL Thanks much. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox
Hi Cristóbal, It appears that the only way to create a website shortcut for Firefox is to create a new shortcut on the desktop, and paste the URL for that site into the shortcut. Keep in mind this shortcut will only work if Firefox is your default browser. HTH, Rick Justice "Tomorrow's another day, another way!" "and if tomorrow never comes, problem solved!" - Original Message - From: "Cristóbal" <crismuno...@gmail.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 12:21 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox I actually looked up something similar regarding how to put a webpage link on the windows taskbar with Firefox. From what I remember, it was somewhat straight forward with Chrome, but Firefox required some additional steps and command prompt this and tweek that. This is with Windows 10 by the way. Anyway, I got busy with other stuff and sort of left that task linger and I almost forgot that I wanted to do that until I came across this thread. So yeah, Anyone got any ideas? -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 8:34 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox After all that, I realize I answered a question different from the one you're asking. No doubt there's an answer to the question you did ask. -Original Message- From: Adrian Spratt Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 11:31 PM To: 'jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com' <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Subject: RE: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi, Mike. I also have Windows 7. This should work. Press the Windows key and arrow up once to "all Programs." Press enter, then when a list appears press the up arrow key once. Then press f until Firefox appears. On hearing Firefox verbalized, press the applications key. Arrow up to "send to submenu," press enter again. Then press the down arrow key until you hear "Desktop" and press enter yet again. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:15 PM To: Jaws-Users List <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi All, Running Windows 7, Firefox ESR 52.8, & J16 thru J2018. When you want to create a desktop shortcut from a website you visit regularly, how in the heck do you do it?! In IE11 you can get create desktop shortcut options in the context menu, or from the file menu, but with Firefox I can't find anywhere in the context or file menu that will allow me to create a desktop shortcut while on the website. So again, how is this done? All help will be a great hair saver, and immensely appreciated! LOL Thanks much. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox
Hi Mike, It appears that the only way to accomplish this is with drag and drop, at least in this version of Firefox. I found nothing in the program or a web search to show any provision for saving a website shortcut to the Desktop. You will have to use the method I described to you earlier. HTH, Rick Justice "Tomorrow's another day, another way!" "and if tomorrow never comes, problem solved!" - Original Message - From: "Mike B." <mb69ma...@charter.net> To: "Jaws-Users List" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:14 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi All, Running Windows 7, Firefox ESR 52.8, & J16 thru J2018. When you want to create a desktop shortcut from a website you visit regularly, how in the heck do you do it?! In IE11 you can get create desktop shortcut options in the context menu, or from the file menu, but with Firefox I can't find anywhere in the context or file menu that will allow me to create a desktop shortcut while on the website. So again, how is this done? All help will be a great hair saver, and immensely appreciated! LOL Thanks much. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox
I actually looked up something similar regarding how to put a webpage link on the windows taskbar with Firefox. From what I remember, it was somewhat straight forward with Chrome, but Firefox required some additional steps and command prompt this and tweek that. This is with Windows 10 by the way. Anyway, I got busy with other stuff and sort of left that task linger and I almost forgot that I wanted to do that until I came across this thread. So yeah, Anyone got any ideas? -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 8:34 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox After all that, I realize I answered a question different from the one you're asking. No doubt there's an answer to the question you did ask. -Original Message- From: Adrian Spratt Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 11:31 PM To: 'jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com' <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Subject: RE: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi, Mike. I also have Windows 7. This should work. Press the Windows key and arrow up once to "all Programs." Press enter, then when a list appears press the up arrow key once. Then press f until Firefox appears. On hearing Firefox verbalized, press the applications key. Arrow up to "send to submenu," press enter again. Then press the down arrow key until you hear "Desktop" and press enter yet again. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:15 PM To: Jaws-Users List <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi All, Running Windows 7, Firefox ESR 52.8, & J16 thru J2018. When you want to create a desktop shortcut from a website you visit regularly, how in the heck do you do it?! In IE11 you can get create desktop shortcut options in the context menu, or from the file menu, but with Firefox I can't find anywhere in the context or file menu that will allow me to create a desktop shortcut while on the website. So again, how is this done? All help will be a great hair saver, and immensely appreciated! LOL Thanks much. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox
Hi Adrian, I'm sorry, but I failed to mention that I run the portable version of Firefox ESR 52.8, and this doesn't appear in Start menu/ All Programs. There's a way of creating a desktop shortcut with the version I'm running, but it requires creating a new shortcut through the context menu with nothing selected on the desktop. I'm definitely going to save these steps in case I have to install Firefox to get the desired workability - Original Message - From: Adrian Spratt To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi, Mike. I also have Windows 7. This should work. Press the Windows key and arrow up once to "all Programs." Press enter, then when a list appears press the up arrow key once. Then press f until Firefox appears. On hearing Firefox verbalized, press the applications key. Arrow up to "send to submenu," press enter again. Then press the down arrow key until you hear "Desktop" and press enter yet again. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:15 PM To: Jaws-Users List <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi All, Running Windows 7, Firefox ESR 52.8, & J16 thru J2018. When you want to create a desktop shortcut from a website you visit regularly, how in the heck do you do it?! In IE11 you can get create desktop shortcut options in the context menu, or from the file menu, but with Firefox I can't find anywhere in the context or file menu that will allow me to create a desktop shortcut while on the website. So again, how is this done? All help will be a great hair saver, and immensely appreciated! LOL Thanks much. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox
After all that, I realize I answered a question different from the one you're asking. No doubt there's an answer to the question you did ask. -Original Message- From: Adrian Spratt Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 11:31 PM To: 'jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com' <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Subject: RE: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi, Mike. I also have Windows 7. This should work. Press the Windows key and arrow up once to "all Programs." Press enter, then when a list appears press the up arrow key once. Then press f until Firefox appears. On hearing Firefox verbalized, press the applications key. Arrow up to "send to submenu," press enter again. Then press the down arrow key until you hear "Desktop" and press enter yet again. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:15 PM To: Jaws-Users List <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi All, Running Windows 7, Firefox ESR 52.8, & J16 thru J2018. When you want to create a desktop shortcut from a website you visit regularly, how in the heck do you do it?! In IE11 you can get create desktop shortcut options in the context menu, or from the file menu, but with Firefox I can't find anywhere in the context or file menu that will allow me to create a desktop shortcut while on the website. So again, how is this done? All help will be a great hair saver, and immensely appreciated! LOL Thanks much. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox
Hi, Mike. I also have Windows 7. This should work. Press the Windows key and arrow up once to "all Programs." Press enter, then when a list appears press the up arrow key once. Then press f until Firefox appears. On hearing Firefox verbalized, press the applications key. Arrow up to "send to submenu," press enter again. Then press the down arrow key until you hear "Desktop" and press enter yet again. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 9:15 PM To: Jaws-Users List <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox Hi All, Running Windows 7, Firefox ESR 52.8, & J16 thru J2018. When you want to create a desktop shortcut from a website you visit regularly, how in the heck do you do it?! In IE11 you can get create desktop shortcut options in the context menu, or from the file menu, but with Firefox I can't find anywhere in the context or file menu that will allow me to create a desktop shortcut while on the website. So again, how is this done? All help will be a great hair saver, and immensely appreciated! LOL Thanks much. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[JAWS-Users] Desktop Shortcuts With Firefox
Hi All, Running Windows 7, Firefox ESR 52.8, & J16 thru J2018. When you want to create a desktop shortcut from a website you visit regularly, how in the heck do you do it?! In IE11 you can get create desktop shortcut options in the context menu, or from the file menu, but with Firefox I can't find anywhere in the context or file menu that will allow me to create a desktop shortcut while on the website. So again, how is this done? All help will be a great hair saver, and immensely appreciated! LOL Thanks much. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
