I might not be as articulate about this as you may wish, But I’ll do the best I can.
I used to have most of my favorite sites’ links grouped across the top of my Google.com Home Page. Now they’re gone and Google wants me to do things differently. But I don’t want to.
So, what can I use for an alternatyive Home Page in which I can go to a site, drag the icon from the URL to my page, so that later I can just click on the link to go back to that site?
(I told you I wasn’t going to be very articulate. Maybe the Mods can do a huge edit and state my lament more clearly and succinctly. )
In Firefox, you can drag the favicon of an open page onto the bookmarks toolbar and into any submenu on it (or into the bookmarks menu itself, should you wish)
If I’m not mistaken (I’m on a Mac right now or I’d check), you can also drag any link (not just an open page) onto your links bar to create a link there. I’m not sure that’s what the OP is asking, but I think it might be.
Yes, that’s my problem. I use FireFox (on a PC) and until recently, I could drag a favicon or whatever you call it onto that links bar and it stayed there. Six weeks later I could click on it to go immediately to that site. No mas. At least not at the Google page which I use as my Home Page.
My question is, is this change web-wide? Or is there a page where that FireFox favicon feature mentioned above will work?
Was the links bar that you were using a part of the actual website, or was it part of the browser? jackelope is referring to the bookmarks toolbar under the address bar in Firefox.
If you’re talking about having the links on your actual Google homepage, that’s a different story. In either case, though, the Firefox bookmarks toolbar does precisely what you’re looking for. If you right click somewhere on the toolbars on the top of the browser, you should see a list of toolbars with checks next to them. “Bookmarks toolbar” should be checked. If it is, you should have a bar that has nothing on it but your favorites. You can click and drag any URL right to that bar and it will create a permanent link that you can use at any time.
Yes!! It was my browser - FireFox - and I got the links bar back doing what you said. back doing what you said. Then to be sure, I went to my Home Page just to see if worked there,too, and it id.
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