Hi Jim, Or, you could temporarily make Firefox your default browser & click on the desktop shortcut for that particular website. Take care. Mike Sent from my iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Pursley To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2016 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Create desktop shortcut with Firefox
Thanks Mike. I'll give it a shot. It also occurred to me to create the desktop icon with IE and switch the default browser to FF so that clicking on it brings up the FF version, which for this one site is preferable to IE. Keep on truckin' Jim On 12/31/2016 10:29 PM, Mike B. wrote: > Hi Jim, > > The only way I was able to create a website desktop shortcut was doing the > following: > 1. With the website of choice open press, Control + S, to open the save > dialogue. > 2. Tab 1 time into a list of save options, & arrow up / down to the option > you want. > 3. Tab to the save button & press enter, or press, Alt + S. > This will save a shortcut to the folder, or wherever your saved downloads > go > to by default. Now copy it or cut it from the downloads location, & paste > it to your desktop. > I'm not going to swear that the steps above will work every time because > they sure as hell didn't for me! LOL But, other than saving as a > Bookmark > & copy / pasting this was the best I could do. > Take care. > Mike > Sent from my iBarstool. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jim Pursley > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2016 5:47 AM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Create desktop shortcut with Firefox > > > How do I create a desktop shortcut for a web site with Firefox v50? > Running Win7, JAWS 17 latest. Help indicates only mouse maneuver. > -- James C. Pursley Chief Investment Officer Gaia Capital Management Underpinned by sustainably growing cash dividends from quality companies, we seek long term client account growth 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/
