Firefox Tasbar Icon Problem

[viewer]

I want to make a Gmail shortcut icon and add it to my taskbar on Win 7

I have made the shortcut on the desktop, and downloaded a gmail picture to show the shortcut is for Gmail.The shortcut runs fine.

I now want to transfer that icon to my taskbar, just like you have them there for Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.

When I drag it there, it says "Pin to Mozilla Firefox", but won't go there, it just returns to the desktop.

I have been in to the taskbar and unclicked "Lock the taskbar", but that makes no difference.

Is it only a shortcut to a program you can put there, and not a shortcut to a page?

Thanks

[shred]

Damn. You're right: mine does the same thing. This worked for me:

* Using Explorer, browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\
* Drag firefox.exe to the desktop and create a shortcut to firefox.exe on the desktop
* Right-click and get Properties on the shortcut to Firefox.exe
* In "target" add the URL after firefox.exe. e.g.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http : // www. austec. info
(without the spaces added to stop this site mangling the URL)
* Copy your new shortcut to the QuickLaunch bar

[viewer]

Thanks....followed your lead and can get the shortcut to pin to the taskbar, but...

The icon itself is just the same looking as a firefox icon looks like.

I then went to Properties, change icon, and browsed to one of these images I downloaded to my desktop, had to go out of icons file, and into all files. I selected the image to change the icon,but the image now won't save, saying select an icon from the list or specify a different file.



How do I get the sample gmail icons into the ( where are they) icons folder?

Thanks again....

[viewer]

Solved it....had to change the image file to .png
This then allowed the icon image to be saved.

Hope this helps someone else ?

[viewer]

Hmm...on reboot the icon is still there and works, however it has lost its picture like icons have...

[viewer]

I gave up...there are threads everywhere on what to try, but they all failed for me.

I then stumbled upon this little program, installed it, and it runs fine on the taskbar, with icon, showing notifications as well.

I hope this may help someone else?

[Philquad]

[T]here is only one simple rule that you have to follow in order to make almost any item "pinnable" to the taskbar: create a shortcut, save it somewhere safe so you don't delete it by mistake, create a shortcut to that shortcut and add the explorer word before its path. Then you have a shortcut which you can pin to the taskbar.