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Create Shortcut

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Version 0.3.6

Implements the Netscape Navigator 4 Create Shortcut menu item in Firefox. To create a shortcut to the current page bring up the context menu (usually done by right-clicking) and choose Create Shortcut. Selecting the menu item displays a dialog box that allows the creation of a shortcut to the current page/link on your desktop.

Note: This add-on is currently for Microsoft Windows only, see the Deskcut add-on for a cross-platform alternative.

Contributors

Release History

0.3.6

  • Fix a bug that prevents shortcuts from being created for sites with long titles.

0.3.5

  • Added support for Firefox 3 final.
  • Added an Italian (it-IT) locale, contributed by Godai71 of eXtenZilla.it.
  • Added a French (fr-FR) locale, contributed by DragonZilla.

0.3.4

  • Added support for Firefox 2 final.
  • Added a Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) locale, contributed by winiah.

0.3.3

  • Added compatibility with the latest nightlies ( and above).

0.3.2

  • Fixed garbled text when specifying non-ASCII characters in the prefix and suffix boxes.
  • Added a Japanese (ja-JP) locale, contributed by rn1rn0.

0.3.1

  • Fixed problems with the latest post-1.0 Firefox builds.

0.3

  • Added an option to control what happens when a new shortcut has the same name as an existing shortcut. By default the old shortcut will be overwritten, this behaviour can now be turned off in the add-on's options dialog causing the new shortcut to be automatically renamed instead.
  • Added a hidden pref that changes the folder where the shortcut is created, set the pref createshortcut.folder to the path of the folder you wish shortcuts to be created in (remember if you set the pref in about:config you should use single backslash path separators, e.g. c:\windows\favorites, however if you set it in prefs.js or user.js you must use double backslashes, e.g. c:\\windows\\favorites).
  • Added a Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) locale, contributed by Fernando Pereira Silveira.
  • Added a German (de-DE) locale, contributed by Patrick Ruh.

0.2.1

  • Fixed a problem with shortcuts being sent to the wrong location if the desktop folder had been moved, this add-on suffered from the problem described in Bug 228977.
  • Polish: Prevent the context menu entry from displaying in some situations (such as when text is selected or when the cursor is in an input box).
  • Polish: Append an ellipsis to the Create Shortcut menu entry when the shortcut prompt is enabled.

0.2

  • You can now choose to bypass the shortcut prompt and automatically use the default values instead.
  • You can now edit the prefix and suffix applied to the shortcut's name.

0.1

  • Initial Release.

Comments

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#61 Dominique P.

Thanks for your answer.

#62 Jetman

Pike: About Create Shortcut. Great little thing-a-majig, but needs one minor enhancement: adding the 'Create Shortcut' menu pick to one of the FFx top-level menus, like the File menu. This helps when the webpage one is visiting switches the normal context menu out and one temporarily loses the 'Create Shortcut' menu pick altogether.

#63 gilbertt

a very useful extension. any chance of this being available for linux?

#64 Pike

@gilbertt

I don't have a Linux machine I'm afraid (too complicated for me), you might want to look at the Deskcut extension which should work on Linux:

http://deskcut.mozdev.org/

#65 David

Hi

Very useful extension. Thank you. :)

One request: would you consider removing (or make it an option) the 'Shortcut to...' from the description. I find this unnecessary and a slight nuisance that I need to delete it each time.

Thanks.

David.

#66 Pike

@David

Just delete the "Shortcut to" part in the CW options dialog.

#67 dave m

I click on the install link and get "software installation currently disabled, click edit options to enable and try again." I click then remove checkboxes but still get same message. Exactly which tab, which checkbox do I change?
FF 1.5.0.4 Win 98 2
Thanks.

#69 Lee

Hi,

Just upgraded to Firefox 2.....I see your extensions I used particularly "Create Shortcut" are not compatible with FF2...any new versions of your extensions/add-ons in the works ??

Thanks,

Lee

#70 Lee

Further to my post of November 2, 2006 thought I'd try to reinstall "Create Shortcut" from your website and ignore the message in the "add-ons" in Firefox 2 indicating not compatible. This seems to have worked !! Not sure if this works with your other add-ons.

Keep up the great work on your extensions.

Cheers,

Lee

#71 ---

thanks

#72 JB

I want o ditto this prior comment:

:Just delete the "Shortcut to" part in the CW options dialog."

#73 sbir

Hi please give me a hand
I want to create a shotcut of a linke that is listed in my firefox bookmarks
How can I creat that
tanks alot
bye

#74 sbir

sorry
my mean is that shortcut key
I'm so sorry
bye

#75 Pike

@sbir

I don't know how to do that.

p.s. Sorry for not answering before, I completely missed your posts.

#76 barzy

Hi

Very useful extension. Thank you. :)

barzy,

#77 ta1k0

Dear Pike,
The great Deskcut doesn't work in ff3 and I looked everywhere for a simple 'Create Shortcut' function. How come this nifty tool doesn't show up in FF ADD ON's searches? This the only function I liked about IE.
Very Much appreciated thx....

#78 ta1k0

:Just delete the "Shortcut to" part in the CW options dialog."

Can you help me with this - What is CW Options?

#79 Pike

@ta1k0

You can get to an extension's options dialog by going to:

Tools->Add-ons->Extensions, select the Extension then click the Options button.

#80 ta1k0

Great, never knew about this Options area before - thx

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