On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 05:53 am, Bill White  wrote:
The difference is that if you know how to do it, you can make a shortcut to 
your favorites folder, and without having to open your browser first, you can 
click on a favorite and go directly there. 

 This is true.  Microsoft simply implemented its "Favorites" as a folder of 
webpage shortcuts.  If one really prefers to launch directly into a given 
webpage for a different default browser you can simply create that same 
shortcut style in favorites "by hand."

Chrome allows you to create what it calls an "application shortcut" to take you 
directly to a webpage when you click on it via the "hamburger stack 
button"/Menu button, More Tools, Create application shortcuts.  This will place 
the result on your desktop, if you prefer it be in the Favorites folder you can 
cut and paste it there.

There is a Firefox extension called deskCut that does the same thing, but does 
not work under Windows 10 and Firefox 43.0.4, and I'm not certain which is the 
problem since there is a very recent review saying that it does work even 
though the extension is quite old.  There is another, SaveLink, that is 
slightly more complicated in that it can save the web page shortcut to any 
folder you define as a place you'd like to save them.  If if the Favorites 
folder is where you'd prefer they go then you can add add that to the list of 
folders where SaveLink can save web page shortcuts and always direct SaveLink 
to place it there.

I have not tested either of these Firefox add-ons for how well they may, or may 
not, interact with JAWS.  Since the Chrome method is built in to Chrome if you 
can get to the Chrome menu you can get to it.

Brian

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