Quickly Access Desktop Icons and Files from your Web Browser

Software, Desktop, Mozilla Firefox, Shortcuts

29 jul 2008

Instead of minimizing the browser to access desktop files, you can simple create a shortcut in the bookmarks toolbar of your browser that points to the desktop folder.

desktop You may find this simple tip handy if you always have a web browser running on your desktop screen in maximized mode.

There are instances when you need to access program shortcuts and files placed on the desktop.

Now instead of minimizing the browser to access these files, you can simple create a shortcut in the bookmarks toolbar of your browser that points to the desktop folder. Click this bookmark and you’ll be able to browse through desktop content within the browser.

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To create a bookmark pointing the desktop, open this address – file:///c:/Users/ – inside a new tab in Firefox. Click your user name and then drag-n-drop the "desktop" folder to your bookmarks toolbar.

http://www.jeetblog.com/ Abhijeet

Nice trick ( XP users should type – file:///c:/Documents and Settings/ )
http://www.decisioncare.org Raj

I know that there is an extension that can make Firefox a Windows-explorer-type program as well. I forget the name though.
http://smashingfeeds.com Kevin

Nice time saving tip…
http://iampriteshdesai@gmail.com iampriteshdesai

But Amit what about the ugly icon? Any way to change that?
And you never answer my mails.
Chris Walsh

Thanks for the tip, it works well but I have tried creating a shortcut to a mapped drive and I’m having a small problem.
The shortcut works and shows me the contents of the drive but I always have to sort by the name column every time I click on it. Is there any way to get Firefox to remember this sort setting?
http://www.DailyGyan.com/ Anoop Engineer

No need to type file:///c:/Users/ .
Type c:\Users and hit enter. Firefox will automatically take you to that place.

Remember to use a backslash – ‘\’ after c:
http://www.rohitblog.com RohitBlog

Didn’t worked for me; FFX 2.0
Just can’t drag&drop the “Desktop” folder to bar.
http://bizztra.blogspot.com bizztra

just type c: in firefox and hit enter…… it should work..
F. S. KAMAL

Isn’t it easy to click the desktop icon on the quick launch bar ?
http://www.riyaz.net Riyaz

To do this, Show Desktop icon is already available on the windows taskbar. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Windows+D (i.e. a combination of the windows logo key and D key)
http://acespower.blogspot.com Yanto

I prefer using Show Desktop or put my favorite program shortcut on the taskbar.
http://www.myfreebees.blogspot.com Nagaraju.B

To access all program shortcuts and files, just select the option “desktop” from “toolbars” by right clicking the taskbar. That’s all.

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Quickly Access Desktop Icons and Files from your Web Browser

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