1612698 - Support pinning sites as Windows 10 start tiles

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Win32, enhancement)

Description

[hoesch]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox
2. Open Website
3. Select Pin to start

Actual results:

No pin to start button exists

Expected results:

A button should allow to pin the page as tile to the start screen

Comment 1

[hoesch]

What you have to do right now is:
Open File Explorer
Move to the obscure programm folder somewhere deep down in AppData
Drag the lock symbol into this folder
Open the start screen
Open the app overview
Search for the webpage
Pin to start

Comment 2

[Andre Klapper]

Hi, what is "Pin to start"? What "lock symbol" where? "app overview" of what? Please see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writing_guidelines and add a more useful description to this report by being way more specific and clear. Thanks!

Comment 3

[hoesch]

(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #2)

Hi, what is "Pin to start"? What "lock symbol" where? "app overview" of what? Please see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writing_guidelines and add a more useful description to this report by being way more specific and clear. Thanks!

Ok, sorry for that, thought that someone is familiar to Windows 10.

Pin to start:
Function to add a tile to the windows 10 start screen. It has a little needle as symbol. Most times it looks like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/tbbbfhi8bV5E2k55A . In the Windows 10 file explorer right click menu it comes without the needle symbol. It's a kind/successor of pin to taskbar

Windows 10 start screen:
It's the main launcher for Windows 10. It can be compared to the firefox start page, where you put your favourite webpages, except the windows start screen also works with other types like apps or folders. Looks like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/DRezYd8LXpSEvKLe9 or in a smaller version with the start menu like that: https://images.app.goo.gl/xjHp3vb3QUXQtGLv8

App Overview:
The main collection of every application of Windows 10. It's the successor of the famous start menu. If you have tablet mode on, you find it by clicking on the hamburger menu in the upper left edge and than on all apps. If you have your normal start menu, you find it left to the tiles.

Obscure programm folder:
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
This is where you put links, you like to appear in the Start Menu \ App Overview

Lock symbol:
These days used by firefox to display if a web page is encrypted. It appears left to the url. Looks like: https://images.app.goo.gl/jAKtw9aBSKnKYDm38

My appologies for being so unspecific, these are my first bug reports and I was thinking that everyone has discovered these basic Windows 10 functions. If anything has to be explained more, I'm at your service.

Comment 4

[Gingerbread Man]

The following guides illustrate what this feature looks like:

• Edge
• Chrome