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How can I store a webpage title inside a Windows .url file?
This is a question about the .url file format:
How can I store the webpage title inside a Windows .url file ?
I was unable to find an official documentation of the .url file format anywhere on the Net....
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Cannot create desktop shortcuts to Windows URI
I am trying to create a desktop shortcut to a windows URI, e.g. ms-settings:privacy. Sites such as https://winaero.com/windows-11-uri-commands-to-launch-apps-directly/#Create_shortcut_for_URI_command ...
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What is the opposite command to `CTRL + L` in a browser? [duplicate]
In most browsers (like Chrome, which I use) CTRL + L will take you to the address bar. Is there a shortcut for going back to where you were before clicking CTRL + L?
Example.
I am writing a message. ...
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Shortcut to open URL with copied text in clipboard
I need to open a URL address which has a key at the end which opens different items. Something like a id system.
ex : www.example.com/userid=1234
I want to have a shortcut in PC in a way that I can ...
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How do I create a desktop shortcut to create a new Google Doc?
It is tiresome to open Google Drive in a browser and from there clicking "New document ...". So how do I find and store the URL for creating a new document so that I can put a shortcut on my desktop?
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Firefox bookmark with wildcard and keyword
In Firefox, how do I set up URL shortcuts that include a wildcard, %s? I have definitely set this up before on another computer.
For example, if I wanted to view a Jira ticket, I would enter jira ...
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How do I copy the URL contained in the internet shortcut in Windows 7?
Sometimes my Internet shortcut doesn't work properly when I double-click on it.
Is there a way to easily copy the URL contained in the shortcut for Windows 7.
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Is Windows caching the URLs of internet shortcut files?
Let's say I have links for two searches on the web: "search 1" and "search 2" on Google. The URLs would then be:
https://www.google.com/#q=search1
https://www.google.com/#q=search2
I create internet ...
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Shortcut to open URL from clipboard
I want to create a shortcut that opens links from the clipboard.
I frequently switch browsers and it's very annoying to copy/paste hundreds of URLs from one to another.
I have created a shortcut to ...
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How do I create a shortcut that launches a non-default-browser to a website
I want to be able to double click it and it runs the correct (non default) browser and opens my preferred website?
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How to get the URL of a Gmail or other webapp page in Chrome "application shortcut" mode?
In the google chrome web browser, if you want to copy the URL of the current page, in normal browser mode, you'd just copy the URL out of the address bar. But when your web app is running in the ...
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Chrome Equivalent of %s address bar trick in Firefox [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a Google Chrome extension that acts like Firefox’s keyword quicksearch bookmarks?
I was curious if there was an equivalent technique in Chrome to do address bar param ...
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