Solved Taskbar icon behavior

Hello again,

I am trying to use the default Windows 11 Pro taskbar, but Windows has gone backwards as far as being able to customize it.

Previously I had a Quick Launch toolbar with Explorer and Firefox. To do this without a Quick Launch bar, I followed a post that said to create a Shortcut and name it My PC (or whatever) and add this as the Target, "C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:MyComputerFolder". I added that shortcut to my Taskbar and when I click it, it opens Explorer (like it should). When you open It, it also puts a folder icon on the task bar. Hovering over that icon shows all of the open Explorer instances (like it should).

So basically I have an Explorer shortcut on my Taskbar that will open Explorer whenever you click it. When you do open Explore, it adds another "folder" icon as I wrote above. That is what I want ....PERFECT!!

What I would like is to get a Firefox "pinned to Taskbar" to always open an instance of Firefox (I know I could Right click, but I want the same behavior as I did with Explorer), and then either show another icon with the open Firefox instances like the way I have Explorer working. This worked when I had the Quick Launch toolbar as clicking the quick launch always opened a new Firefox and then put an icon on the regular Taskbar like I described. I am guessing the Target command above is a clue, but I don't understand it, ...just enough to cutNpaste.

Is this possible. It worked for Explorer and I bet it could work for Firefox too, but I am struggling to solve this.

Thanks!

as there is no longer a quick launch, to get the desired effect you want for firefox, it would be easiest to create a .bat or a .ahk file to launch it. let me know the exact path to your firefox installation exe (example - c:\program files\mozilla\) and i'll make it for you...

dacrone said:

as there is no longer a quick launch, to get the desired effect you want for firefox, it would be easiest to create a .bat or a .ahk file to launch it. let me know the exact path to your firefox installation exe (example - c:\program files\mozilla\) and i'll make it for you...

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Sound like a great idea that I should have thought of, but didn't.

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

Thanks!

attached is an ahk converted to .exe. save it somewhere and then pin to taskbar.

ahk code inside exe:

Works! THANK YOU!

np. please mark as solved. thanks.

dacrone said:

np. please mark as solved. thanks.

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done. again ...THANKS!