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Edge Insider feature request - Pin to Start
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 wrote: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.
I respect your point of view, but you might shown your father the wrong habit. There is no advantage in browser launch speed, when opening a website from Start Menu compare to New Tab / Home page tile. But there's a big advantage in work flow, i.e. PC use culture, when proper methods are used to accomplish proper tasks. Try empowering your farther with this way to think, and suddenly he'll start using and installing other software more often. You'll overcome this way natural hesitance of some older folks in using tech. :)sambul95 and Drachenboot , I disagree with the assessment that "you might [have] shown your father the wrong habit." It is 100% correct to use a functionality released by Microsoft. That is precisely why Microsoft releases functionality: to be used. However, nowadays Microsoft reserves the right to "break old practices" whenever they want. The "wrong" is on Microsoft's insane pace of change and lack of continuity for functionality. Not on user for using the software. Cheers!
