How to Pin Websites to Taskbar via Chrome, Firefox and Edge

If you frequently visit a website, you might have placed them on the bookmark bar, marked them favorite, or even set them as the default new tab. Well, these do make it easier to access your preferred web pages. However, it involves launching the browser first and opening your desired website. What if you could cut this wait? You could pin these websites to the Windows Taskbar or Start menu. The same is possible across all major browsers. In this guide, we will show youguide you through the steps to do so via Chrome, Edge (Chromium version), and Firefox. So let’s begin with the guide.

Pin Websites to Taskbar via Chrome

1. Open the desired website in Chrome which you need to pin to Taskbar.
2. Click on the overflow icon and select More Tools > Create Shortcut.
   
3. A confirmation pop-up will now appear. There will be an option to open the website as a window. Selecting that will make that website open in a new Chrome window rather than in the new tab in the same window.
4. This window wouldn’t have any option to open a new tab or a website. That is, this window wouldn’t consist of the address bar altogether. You could switch this website back to the Chrome browser by clicking the overflow icon, selecting Open in Chrome, and then carrying out the needed task.
5. To pin this website to the taskbar, right-click the newly created desktop shortcut and select Pin to Taskbar. Or add it to the Start menu via the Pin to Start menu option. You could then delete the shortcut from the desktop if you want to.

So this is how you could pin websites via Chrome to the taskbar.

Using Edge (Chromium Build)

1. Launch the Microsoft Edge Chromium browser and open your preferred site.
2. Click the three horizontal dots situated at the top right.
3. Go to More Tools > Pin to Taskbar.
   
4. A dialog box will pop up confirming your decision, click on Pin.
   
   

That’s it. The said website will now be pinned to your Taskbar. Edge makes it easy as compared with Chrome. You don’t have to create a desktop shortcut and then transfer the same to the Taskbar. Here is how you could do the same via the Firefox web browser.

Pin Websites to Taskbar via Firefox

The method is slightly complicated as there isn’t any direct way of pinning websites to the taskbar via Firefox. So we would first manually create the Firefox shortcut and then change its target to that of the website URL. Although it may sound complicated at first, trust us, the steps are pretty easy. Here is what needs to be done for the same.

1. Click on the Windows icon and search for the Firefox browser. Right-click on it and select Open file location.
2. Next, search for the Firefox.exe file, right-click it, and select Send to > Desktop (Create shortcut).
   
   
3. Now head over to this Firefox shortcut, right-click, and select Properties.
4. Under the Shortcut tab, go to the Target field. Leave a space after the firefox.exe text and enter the URL of the website that you wish to pin to the taskbar. For example, adding a Technastic website will look like “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” www.technastic.com.
   
   
5. Hit Apply > OK to confirm this change. Now the Firefox shortcut on the desktop should directly open the website you have input in the Target field.
6. Furthermore, right-click on this shortcut and select the Pin to taskbar option. That’s it. Firefox browser, with your preferred website’s URL, will now move over to the taskbar. You could delete the desktop shortcut as well.

With that, we conclude the guide on spinning websites to the taskbar via Chrome, Edge (Chromium), and Firefox browser. Do let us if you still are having any issues with the above steps.

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