One IE feature I missed after making the switch to Firefox a couple of years ago was the ability to right-click and save a web page shortcut to the desktop. You can drag-and-drop the page favicon from the address bar, but this requires resizing the Firefox window, dragging the shortcut onto the desktop, and maximizing the screen again. It’s not exactly ditch digging, so I began using this option and learned to live with the limitation.
But a less-tech-savvy friend recently asked me how to save desktop shortcuts in Firefox, and rather than attempting to explain what a favicon is, I did what any self-respecting geek does when faced with a question to which he doesn’t know the answer…
Google pointed me (by way of a user forum) to deskCut, a Firefox add-on by Evan Eveland. Once installed, deskCut adds “Create deskCut” to the drop-down menu you get when you right-click within a web page. Clicking this option gives you – you guessed it – a nice page shortcut on your Windows desktop.
Two clicks and you’re done. Doesn’t get much simpler than that.
Matt
May 23rd, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Thank you, I had been wondering that for some time!
September 8th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Hey, thanks for the Deskcut info. That was the only thing keeping me from using Firefox as my default browser! Now its perfect!
Dave
December 21st, 2010 at 6:13 am
Thanks very much for this addon
July 11th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
but it does not keep the favicon, just the firefox logo on the short cut
September 26th, 2012 at 4:15 am
Deskcut shows up on the menu but must be sending the shortcut to the mars rover. Meanwhile I’ll drag the flavicon
Just made the switch to FF and now wondering why I waited so long.