Closed
Bug 812601
Opened 12 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
Create a firefox desktop shortcut on the start screen
Categories
(Firefox :: Installer, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: jimm, Unassigned)
Details
<Asa> gang: is it possible to create a metro tile for classic Firefox? <Asa> I'd like to be able to search all apps and pin classic Firefox to my start screen even when Firefox is my Metro browser <Asa> I can have start screen launchers for all of my other desktop apps <Asa> but apparently not for my MSEDBs <KWierso|Home> Asa: go to program files (x86)\Nightly <KWierso|Home> rightclick firefox.exe <KWierso|Home> choose pin to start? <KWierso|Home> that gets me a traditional desktop Firefox icon on the start screen <Asa> ahh. thanks. I think we should show up in All Apps list as well <Asa> "Firefox" and "Firefox Desktop" or something like that. <Asa> as it stands, I can't winkey + "fire..." to launch destop Firefox like I can other desktop apps
Comment 1•12 years ago
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As I understand it Asa wants the Metro browser as the normal tile, and then an addition tile for desktop Firefox. So there are a couple different approaches here: 1. Create a secondary lnk file with a different name with no appuserid on the lnk file. 2. Use the Metro secondary tile api to create a secondary desktop tile I don't like either approach because if you change your default browser, you'd then have 2 desktop Firefox tiles. Thoughts?
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Comment 2•12 years ago
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I think if we limit the creation of a "Firefox Desktop" tile to when we set ourselves as the metro default it'd be ok. We could be smart about this by trying to maintain one tile when we are not the metro default and two when we are, maybe through a launch check we perform in either browser.
Comment 3•12 years ago
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I don't think the secondary tile API is available to a non metro application but we can check. So if it's not we'd have to go with 2 lnk files. We could check on startup if we're not the default then remove it, but the user would have 2 tiles until they launched desktop firefox at least once after removing the default.
Updated•11 years ago
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Comment 4•11 years ago
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Moving this out to a later release.
Comment 5•11 years ago
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We could try playing with this lnk property value: APPUSERMODEL_STARTPINOPTION_USERPINNED (2) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/jj553605%28v=vs.85%29.aspx To see if it would help this problem.
Updated•10 years ago
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Blocks: metrobacklog
Updated•10 years ago
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No longer blocks: metrov2planning
Updated•10 years ago
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Whiteboard: [metro-mvp][LOE:1]
Comment 6•10 years ago
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Superseded by switch to desktop
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Updated•10 years ago
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No longer blocks: metrobacklog
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Updated•10 years ago
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OS: Windows 8 Metro → Windows 8.1
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