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Edge Insider feature request - Pin to Start
I see that Pin to Task Bar is available in the More Tools, but I do NOT use the Task Bar at all. I MUCH prefer the Start Menu, and normall have all our devices set to Tablet Mode w/Full Screen Start. I want to always be able to pin websites to my Start Menu.
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Really you can pin Microsoft Edge or any other application to start by just dragging the application from the left to the tiles area or if you are in tablet mode and if you have set start to fullscreen, then you can right-click the application and click pin to start.
The video following shows both these methods:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ai_BcIX5VXpWolLDD7D5VPpve8of?e=zd4AgQ
Note: You can only watch this video in windows media player.
TheShaunSaw We are not talking about pinning applications to start. This is (still) easy. It's about pinning pages or sites opened on Edge, and pinning them with one click.
- Oh... OK. That would be a nice feature.
The main reason I used Edge was the easy function of pinning to Start. With that function gone, I say goodbye to Edge.Robert Wade
theodim123 This thread has been going quite a while with no constructive comments by MSFT showing they listen to users. This makes me wonder if MSFT is driving the bus or if Google is driving and MST just lending their name to the effort. There was a time when MSFT realized that retail customers lead to corporate sales, but apparently those days are long gone.
HawkeEye So far only few people downloaded Chromium Edge. But now it's coming as a mandatory update with no rolling back, and everyone will get the new Edge, and more people will start noticing.
Let's just keep this real simple - Microsoft, please add the feature to "Pin to Start Menu" to the new Edge Chromium. All other "workarounds" are nice, but no where near as easy as the original Microsoft Edge's "Pin to Start Menu". Please add this back asap. -- Thank you!
Honestly I would like the ability to pin websites wherever I want. I still use Legacy Edge as my default browser because it still supports syncing with IE Favorites. And of course IE favorites are just shortcuts in a folder which I can add to my taskbar as a fly up menu.
Then I can go right to the page I want without having to start the browser first and then find the bookmarks menu. Pinning to the taskbar is useful but it seems to me it would fill up pretty quickly and of course it doesn't show the website name unless you have labels turned on. Google chrome supports creating desktop shortcuts which could probably be then collected in a folder and made in such a menu. But I don't want to be made to use Google Chrome. If we could pin shortcuts anywhere, I could move on and make Edge Chromium my default.
Robert Wade it looks like this discussion has been going on for more than a year and the Edge team isn't listening. I believe the Pin To Start feature in the old Edge was big and used more often than they know. Please stop arguing and add the feature back.
Hi All. I just want to make sure that I understand the ask clearly. What you are asking for is a way to pin specific web sites to the Start menu, so that when you click on them, Microsoft Edge will launch to that page? Or, are you asking for the ability to pin the browser to the Start menu? For the second, we do have a work around, because it is a program, it shows up in the All Programs list, you can right click there and Pin To Start. This isn't the same as the Pin to Desktop option in the more menu, but it is a work around to get you unblocked. You can also drag and drop the program from the All Programs list to the taskbar, if that is your preferred launching pad.
Thanks, Elliot
Hello,
as it seems that "Pin to Start" is not implemented for the new Edge I have a suggestion to give the user an alternative for "Pin to Start" with the new "install this site as App" function.
With "install this site as an app" a start menu list entry is automatically created. Now you can manually pin this entry to the start menu and you have a similar function as before with "pin to start".
It would be great if there was an option in the settings to automatically pin every new "website-app" to the start menu.
This would bring the function very close to the old "pin to start".
This may not be the default setting but, I would love to have this as an option inside the settings.
Thanks
Elliot Kirk
Any news on this?
You have changed the point "more tools" several times but still no "Pin to Start"
I must still "install" a webpage as App so i can Pin the created link ("C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\") to start.
And than i have the page as App-window not a normal URL-Link what opens in EdgeDrachenboot
I will grant you Pin to start is part of Edge and it is likely it will appear in Edge C. But, in the meantime just thought I would toss this at y'all… whether on Start or in the Applications window, any Store App or User installed software (Program) will appear in both places, naturally, by design & intent. Why do web pages have to be turned into an App to appear on Start? Because, it is for applications not, web pages. Plus, if a page is pinned there it is creating an additional and unnecessary step (in having to open Start, 1st).
Cheers,
Drew
Elliot Kirk wrote:What you are asking for is a way to pin specific web sites to the Start menu?
My suggestion is: instead of multiple Add To options, offer one option "Create shortcut to site" with choices: 1. on Taskbar , 2. on Desktop, 3. on New Tab, 4. in Start Menu
I prefer only shortcuts on New/Home Tab, but for (optional) live tiles - Start Menu is also a good place. Since most website devs don't master live tile art, it might be an interesting task to automate a basic live tile generation from the webpage when warranted by dynamically changing content. But it sounds like a very distant priority. :)
Same here.
I use for my father’s pc the full screen start menu and have pined all his programs and Websites that he normally uses.He loves that all is accessable from one place with the push of the windows key.
But with the new Egde it is way too much complicated for him to pin a new website to start.
Please consider to not remove this feature from Edge.
Drachenboot wrote:I use for my father’s pc the full screen start menu and have pined all his programs and Websites that he normally uses.
I wonder why not pin frequently used websites to Edge New / Home Tab tiles or Favorites Bar rather then mix up installed programs with web page links in Start Menu? As the list of installed programs and apps grows, it can get unmanageable and hard to navigate fast.Why not open a few frequently used websites at once as a session? Combine it with The Great Suspender extension to render only focused tab at the session launch. One can also choose in Edge Settings to open last used tabs as a session at browser launch.
But if a website shortcut is a live tile, it might make sense to add it to live tiles area of Start Menu.
You see it as an experienced IT user.
My father uses 3-5 programs and the rest are websites and even that are few. For this the big start menu is excellent as a dashboard with which he can achieve anything he wants.
Elliot KirkYes, i mean Pin a specific URL as tile that will launch Edge with that URL.
This function is currently in the old Edge (see screenshot)
But what i like from the new "pin to Desktop" is the new dialog to change the Pin description.
It would be great if we also got this dialogue for "pin to start".
The old Edge always took the name automatically from HTML tag <title>, which is not always ideal.
Drachenboot
As has been said, the silly Pin to desktop has to go. What MUST exist is Pin to Start & Pin to taskbar, period & soon!
Cheers,
Drew
Robert Wade definitely, there are many touch screen devices. i used these 2in1s for about 5 years. asus, acer, dell, lenovo, hp. surface and all oems, tablet mode is very important! and for tablet mode, pin to start is a must.
for about 5 years, i never used The desktop UI , every thing are in the start menu (start screen)
Tom_bae
Tom, there are a few different approaches. Example: I hardly ever, super-rarely > Start (haven't since way back in early 7 days); but, that's not using a tablet, either.. But, what is, also, missing from Edge C, right now, that is, also, an absolute must-have is Pin to taskbar!
Someone said pin to desktop and then, Pin to start from there... That's about as silly as having Pin to desktop, at all, in the 1st place. Put things that make sense, that people want & need such as, Pin to start & Pin to task bar.
Cheers,
Drew
- You actually can do one better. You navigate to the ... menu then go to Apps. Select the option that says, INSTALL (Whatever page you're saving.) It will then create a shortcut on your desktop to that website favorite and when you click on it, it will open as a stand alone app. It's really nice.
HOWEVER, if you're looking for the standard open Edge browser. Simply use the More Tools>Pin to Desktop feature. Once it's on your Desktop, you can right click to Pin to Start then delete the Desktop shortcut.Man, that's a rough solution. Especially as a replacement for a two-click "pin to start" button.....
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And understand, all this is doing is creating & throwing shortcuts all over the place & creating unnecessary steps or actions & unnecessarily complicating things, making them more complex & inefficient. Some may prefer the look & function of an app window instead, of a normal web page for a certain site(s) ... but, if not, then the exercise is an unnecessary & unhelpful effort.
Cheers,
Drew- Thanks for the workaround. I much prefer the direct pin-to-Start, though. It's annoying to pin something to the Desktop. That means I have to get OUT of Tablet Mode(which all my cookies are configured for) just to get to the Desktop in order to follow your suggestion. I never use the Deskop, I run all programs in Full Screen or Snapped.
- To pile on, in addition to not using the desktop, I don't even have the icons visible. The start menu is a much more organized way to manage shortcuts than the desktop.
- Thanks Robert Wade, for the suggestion.
