If you ever feel like pinning a shortcut to a website or web page to the Windows 11/10 taskbar, the Edge browser lets you do so easily. You can pin a website shortcut to the Start Menu using Chrome, Opera or Firefox. Now let us see how to pin a website or webpage to the taskbar or Start menu using Microsoft Edge on a Windows 11/10 computer. You don’t need any third-party extension for it as Microsoft Edge supports this feature natively.
Pin website to Taskbar using Edge
The built-in feature in the Edge browser to pin a webpage to the Windows 11/10 taskbar or Start menu works similarly as seen in Google Chrome. However, there, you create a shortcut to pin the website to the taskbar whereas, in the Edge browser, all you have to do is directly select the ‘Pin to Taskbar‘ option. Here’s how!
- Open Edge browser.
- Go to the ‘Settings and More‘ menu or press Alt+F4 hotkey.
- Navigate to the ‘More tools‘ section.
- Select the Pin to taskbar option.
Follow the procedure described below to keep your most important websites close at hand.
Launch the Edge browser. Now, to pin any web page to the taskbar, open any web page in the Microsoft Edge browser.
Next, click on the 3-dotted ‘Settings and more’ menu icon in the top-right corner.
Access the ‘More tools‘ section present under the ‘Settings and more‘ menu. Select Pin to taskbar option.
Instantly, you should see a new icon in the Taskbar. The favicon of the site should be visible as the pinned icon.
If any site is not using any custom favicon, the default icon will appear.
Pin website to Start Menu using Edge
The process to pin a website or webpage to the Start menu of Windows 11/10 using the Edge browser is the same as pinning a webpage to the taskbar. The steps are:
- Launch the Edge browser
- Open a webpage
- Press the Alt+F4 hotkey
- In the Settings and more menu, go to the More tools section, and select the Pin to Start option.
Pin website to Taskbar or Start Menu using Edge via Apps button
Another method to pin a webpage to the taskbar or Start menu using the Edge browser is via the Apps button present in the Toolbar. Here are the steps:
- Open Microsoft Edge and then open a website
- Click on the Apps button present in the Edge toolbar on the top right section. If you don’t see the Apps button, then first add it using the Customize toolbar section present under the Appearance category on the Settings page
- You will see an option in the pop-up saying Install this site as an app. Just next to it, there is an Install button. Click on it
- A confirmation pop-up will appear. Press the Install button in that pop-up. You can also set a custom name for the webpage if needed
- Type edge://apps in the Omnibox or address bar of Edge browser and hit Enter to open the Apps page
- There you will see the webpage that was installed by you as an app
- For that webpage, you will see the Pin to taskbar and Pin to Start options.
Use any option or both and the website will be pinned to the selected place.
That’s all.
How do I add a website to the top bar in Microsoft Edge?
Adding a website or webpage to the top bar or title bar in Microsoft Edge is pretty simple. All you need to do is right-click on the webpage tab and select the Pin tab option. The webpage will be pinned instantly and its icon will move to the left corner. You can click on that icon to immediately open that particular webpage. You can also unpin the pinned webpage. Right-click on the pinned icon and select the Unpin tab option.
How do I pin a website shortcut to the Start menu?
If you already have a website shortcut on your Windows 11/10 desktop, then simply right-click on that shortcut, and click on the Pin to Start option. This will pin the website shortcut to the Start menu. You can even delete the desktop shortcut of that website and the pinned item will remain there on the Start menu.
Read next: How to Pin File or Folder to Start Menu in Windows PC.
