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josh_bodner
Silver Contributor
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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Drew1903
Silver Contributor
Jul 28, 2019

PiecesOf8 

All one has to do is drag-n-drop the URL from the address box to put a shortcut on the desktop. Possibly the idea, other than pinning, is to have 'special' sites kept as Favorites rather than storing shortcuts for things on a desktop.

Cheers,
Drew


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