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josh_bodner
Former Employee
Jun 25, 2019

Dev channel update to 77.0.197.1 is live

Hello Insiders!  Today we released build 77.0.197.1 to the Microsoft Edge Dev channel.  We’ve got some new features, many of which you’ve seen over the past week in Canary and have been eagerly waiti...
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PiecesOf8
Brass Contributor
Jun 25, 2019

josh_bodner So now that you PiecesOf8

josh_bodner wrote:

 

New features and behavior: 

  • Changed the ability to pin a website to the desktop into the ability to pin a website to the taskbar.

Now that this "feature" has been introduced, how does one pin a website to the desktop? Being able to create a shortcut on the desktop was far more useful than being able to pin to the taskbar because the shortcut could be moved to different locations.

Why was the ability to pin a website to the desktop removed? Who asked for it to be removed?

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Craig Chambers
Copper Contributor
Jun 27, 2019

PiecesOf8 You can still drag the icon in the URL bar to the desktop to pin it.

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    Drew1903
    Silver Contributor
    Jun 27, 2019

    Craig Chambers 

    Craig, again, that is not pinning.  That is creating & putting a Shortcut on the desktop; silly as that is.  We don't pin to desktop hence it not existing in IE or EdgeHTML (nor Edge C).

    Shortcuts are just road-signs or billboards spoiling the scenery and they are not pinning.

    Cheers,
    Drew