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Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?
--

David E. Ross
<http:www.rossde.com>

Some Republican officials have denounced the assassination
of Charlie Kirk as a conspiracy by liberal Democrats. Why
then is the attempted kidnapping of the Democrat governor
of Michigan, the shooting of a Democrat state senator of
Minnesota, and the assassination of the Democrat speaker
of the Minnesota state assembly not denounced as a
conservative Republican conspiracy?

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On 11/19/2025 7:57 PM, David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

If I understand your question, Drag the URL from the Firefox address
window to the Desktop.
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David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar
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On 11/19/2025 5:27 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar

The only icons at the left end of the URL bar are "No trackers known
..." and "Verified by ...". Favicons do not appear.
--

David E. Ross
<http:www.rossde.com>

Some Republican officials have denounced the assassination
of Charlie Kirk as a conspiracy by liberal Democrats. Why
then is the attempted kidnapping of the Democrat governor
of Michigan, the shooting of a Democrat state senator of
Minnesota, and the assassination of the Democrat speaker
of the Minnesota state assembly not denounced as a
conservative Republican conspiracy?

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On 11/19/2025 5:26 PM, knuttle wrote:

On 11/19/2025 7:57 PM, David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

If I understand your question, Drag the URL from the Firefox address
window to the Desktop.

When I try that, I get a circle with a slash (indicating illegal action)
on my desktop.
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David E. Ross
<http:www.rossde.com>

Some Republican officials have denounced the assassination
of Charlie Kirk as a conspiracy by liberal Democrats. Why
then is the attempted kidnapping of the Democrat governor
of Michigan, the shooting of a Democrat state senator of
Minnesota, and the assassination of the Democrat speaker
of the Minnesota state assembly not denounced as a
conservative Republican conspiracy?

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On 11/19/2025 8:06 PM, David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/19/2025 5:27 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar

The only icons at the left end of the URL bar are "No trackers known
..." and "Verified by ...". Favicons do not appear.

Favicons appear in the tab bar. However, they are not dragable. When I
try to drag one, it causes the entire Firefox window to be dragged.
--

David E. Ross
<http:www.rossde.com>

Some Republican officials have denounced the assassination
of Charlie Kirk as a conspiracy by liberal Democrats. Why
then is the attempted kidnapping of the Democrat governor
of Michigan, the shooting of a Democrat state senator of
Minnesota, and the assassination of the Democrat speaker
of the Minnesota state assembly not denounced as a
conservative Republican conspiracy?

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David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/19/2025 5:27 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar

The only icons at the left end of the URL bar are "No trackers known
..." and "Verified by ...". Favicons do not appear.

Verified by... Why don't you just try it?
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On 11/19/2025 9:04 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/19/2025 5:27 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar

The only icons at the left end of the URL bar are "No trackers known
..." and "Verified by ...". Favicons do not appear.

Verified by... Why don't you just try it?

Dragging the "Verified by ..." icon results in a circle with a slash.
Dragging the "No trackers known ..." icon yields nothing.
--

David E. Ross
<http:www.rossde.com>

Some Republican officials have denounced the assassination
of Charlie Kirk as a conspiracy by liberal Democrats. Why
then is the attempted kidnapping of the Democrat governor
of Michigan, the shooting of a Democrat state senator of
Minnesota, and the assassination of the Democrat speaker
of the Minnesota state assembly not denounced as a
conservative Republican conspiracy?

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On 11/19/2025 8:13 PM, David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/19/2025 8:06 PM, David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/19/2025 5:27 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar

The only icons at the left end of the URL bar are "No trackers known
..." and "Verified by ...". Favicons do not appear.

Favicons appear in the tab bar. However, they are not dragable. When I
try to drag one, it causes the entire Firefox window to be dragged.

I would expect that, if a favicon appeared in the URL area (which I call
the address area), that might suffice to create an Internet shortcut via drag-and-drop. But I cannot find out how to get a favicon there.
--

David E. Ross
<http:www.rossde.com>

Some Republican officials have denounced the assassination
of Charlie Kirk as a conspiracy by liberal Democrats. Why
then is the attempted kidnapping of the Democrat governor
of Michigan, the shooting of a Democrat state senator of
Minnesota, and the assassination of the Democrat speaker
of the Minnesota state assembly not denounced as a
conservative Republican conspiracy?

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David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/19/2025 9:04 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/19/2025 5:27 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's >>>>> current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar

The only icons at the left end of the URL bar are "No trackers known
..." and "Verified by ...". Favicons do not appear.

Verified by... Why don't you just try it?

Dragging the "Verified by ..." icon results in a circle with a slash. Dragging the "No trackers known ..." icon yields nothing.

So your desktop is botched and it's no problem of firefox.
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David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/19/2025 8:13 PM, David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/19/2025 8:06 PM, David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/19/2025 5:27 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's >>>>> current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar

The only icons at the left end of the URL bar are "No trackers known
..." and "Verified by ...". Favicons do not appear.

Favicons appear in the tab bar. However, they are not dragable. When I
try to drag one, it causes the entire Firefox window to be dragged.

I would expect that, if a favicon appeared in the URL area (which I call
the address area), that might suffice to create an Internet shortcut via drag-and-drop. But I cannot find out how to get a favicon there.

Fierfox never had any favicons in the url bar yet.
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In article <10fm44t$2n77u$1@dont-email.me>,
David E. Ross <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

On 11/19/2025 5:27 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar

The only icons at the left end of the URL bar are "No trackers known
..." and "Verified by ...". Favicons do not appear.

At the left hand end of my URL bar there are two icons, a shield and a
padlock.

I single click the padlock and hold for a beat, then drag out of Firefox
onto the Desktop.

A shortcut is presented... Thereafter when d/clicked it displays in a Fx window.

On a Win 10 Pro PC fully updated running Firefox 145.0.1

D.


Nb: If the new created shortcut is dragged from the Desktop into a Text
editor, its details and stored file path can be viewed.

D.

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"David E. Ross" wrote:

How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

Drag it from the URL bar ...
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"David E. Ross" wrote:

Dragging the "Verified by ..." icon results in a circle with a slash.

Sounds like you don't have rights to your own desktop, can you drag e.g.
from file explorer to desktop?

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"David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar

The only icons at the left end of the URL bar are "No trackers known
..." and "Verified by ...". Favicons do not appear.

There isn't a padlock icon at the left side of the address bar? Drag
the padlock to the desktop. That's what DNews also suggests.

https://youtu.be/bCVG0BlD8D4?t=93
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On 20.11.2025 01:57, David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag/drop the url icon doesn't work in Win7. With Seamonkey it works.

You must manually create the link file:
- right click on desktop
- New -> Shortcut
- copy/paste URL
- OK

works for me

ciao..

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On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:57:30 -0800, David E. Ross wrote:

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

First you bookmark the page and then you drag the tab to you desktop. 5i
had the same problem recently and I couldn't drag and drop, because I
didn't create a bookmark.)
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On 20.11.2025 13:55, s|b wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:57:30 -0800, David E. Ross wrote:

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

First you bookmark the page and then you drag the tab to you desktop. 5i
had the same problem recently and I couldn't drag and drop, because I
didn't create a bookmark.)

also doesn't work in Windows 7

BTW: you can not drag a tab outside of the window, only icons

ciao...

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On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:04:47 +0100, Schugo wrote:

also doesn't work in Windows 7

BTW: you can not drag a tab outside of the window, only icons

You are correct.

Open Bookmarks (Ctrl+B)

Drag the bookmark to the desktop

This works 100%.

What also works: dragging from the address bar.

toedeloo...
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:12:49 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

There isn't a padlock icon at the left side of the address bar? Drag
the padlock to the desktop. That's what DNews also suggests.

https://youtu.be/bCVG0BlD8D4?t=93

+1

but there's no need to minimize Fx.
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On 20.11.2025 15:34, s|b wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:04:47 +0100, Schugo wrote:

also doesn't work in Windows 7

BTW: you can not drag a tab outside of the window, only icons

You are correct.

Open Bookmarks (Ctrl+B)

Drag the bookmark to the desktop

This works 100%.

What also works: dragging from the address bar.

No! Not under Windows 7 anymore.
Dragging to the Desktop works from nowhere
(url icon, bookmark, link on a webpage).

It worked maybe 10 years ago, but they changed
the drag/drop code. In Seamonkey it still works.

ciao...

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Schugo wrote:

BTW: you can not drag a tab outside of the window, only icons

if you try to drag a tab to the desktop, it creates a new firefox window
with the tab in it
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On 20.11.2025 16:20, Andy Burns wrote:

Schugo wrote:

BTW: you can not drag a tab outside of the window, only icons

if you try to drag a tab to the desktop, it creates a new firefox window with the tab in it

man, WTF?

This thread is about Windows 7 (see original post).

Did you try on Windows 7?

ciao..

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In article <5c7e9dddb4dnews@triffid.co.uk>,
Dnews <dnews@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

In article <10fm44t$2n77u$1@dont-email.me>,
David E. Ross <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

On 11/19/2025 5:27 PM, Frank Miller wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag&drop icon at the left in the url bar

The only icons at the left end of the URL bar are "No trackers known
..." and "Verified by ...". Favicons do not appear.

At the left hand end of my URL bar there are two icons, a shield and a padlock.

I single click the padlock and hold for a beat, then drag out of Firefox
onto the Desktop.

A shortcut is presented... Thereafter when d/clicked it displays in a Fx window.

[Snip]

Even if there's no padlock...

Hilight/Select the url in the url bar, click and hold the mouse pointer
over it, and then drag to the desktop.

Here, either way it works every time.

D.

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On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:50:46 +0100, Frank Miller wrote:


[snip]

Fierfox never had any favicons in the url bar yet.

It did in version 12. It was removed for security reasons (IIRC, it was possible to create a favicon that looked like the padlock icon meaning a secure page).

BTW, FF12 was also the last version that works with Windows 2000.
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:50:36 +0100, Schugo wrote:

What also works: dragging from the address bar.

No! Not under Windows 7 anymore.
Dragging to the Desktop works from nowhere
(url icon, bookmark, link on a webpage).

It worked maybe 10 years ago, but they changed
the drag/drop code. In Seamonkey it still works.

Works under W11 25H2 Fx 145.0.1.

toedeloe...
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On 20.11.2025 17:00, s|b wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:50:36 +0100, Schugo wrote:

What also works: dragging from the address bar.

No! Not under Windows 7 anymore.
Dragging to the Desktop works from nowhere
(url icon, bookmark, link on a webpage).

It worked maybe 10 years ago, but they changed
the drag/drop code. In Seamonkey it still works.

Works under W11 25H2 Fx 145.0.1.

yea, I'm sure it all works in Win10/11.

But that doesn't help the original poster at all...
he wrote 115 ESR / Win 7 !

Maybe you should read first, then post an answer.

ciao..

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On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:57:30 -0800, David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

Open Bookmark folder (Ctrl+B) > rightclick bookmark > Copy > rightclick
Desktop > Paste shortcut

Should work; I just tested it on a W7 system that was collecting dust.
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On 20.11.2025 17:16, s|b wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:57:30 -0800, David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

Open Bookmark folder (Ctrl+B) > rightclick bookmark > Copy > rightclick Desktop > Paste shortcut

Should work; I just tested it on a W7 system that was collecting dust.

OK, forgiven.

That indeed works, although with a wrong icon.

ciao..

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On 11/20/2025 12:12 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

"David E. Ross" wrote:

Dragging the "Verified by ..." icon results in a circle with a slash.

Sounds like you don't have rights to your own desktop, can you drag e.g. from file explorer to desktop?

I can successfully drag from Windows Explorer or any folder to my
desktop and drag from my desktop to either of them.
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David E. Ross
<http:www.rossde.com>

Some Republican officials have denounced the assassination
of Charlie Kirk as a conspiracy by liberal Democrats. Why
then is the attempted kidnapping of the Democrat governor
of Michigan, the shooting of a Democrat state senator of
Minnesota, and the assassination of the Democrat speaker
of the Minnesota state assembly not denounced as a
conservative Republican conspiracy?

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On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:20:37 +0100, Schugo wrote:

Should work; I just tested it on a W7 system that was collecting dust.

That indeed works, although with a wrong icon.

I tried with

<https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php>

and the shortcut shows the same as the website's favicon.

Also tried with startpage.com and mozilla.org: both shortcuts show the
favicon (or a white page with the favicon).
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On 11/20/2025 1:35 AM, Schugo wrote:

On 20.11.2025 01:57, David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

drag/drop the url icon doesn't work in Win7. With Seamonkey it works.

You must manually create the link file:
- right click on desktop
- New -> Shortcut
- copy/paste URL
- OK

works for me

ciao..

YES!! That works. Thank you. :)
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David E. Ross
<http:www.rossde.com>

Some Republican officials have denounced the assassination
of Charlie Kirk as a conspiracy by liberal Democrats. Why
then is the attempted kidnapping of the Democrat governor
of Michigan, the shooting of a Democrat state senator of
Minnesota, and the assassination of the Democrat speaker
of the Minnesota state assembly not denounced as a
conservative Republican conspiracy?

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David E. Ross wrote:

Windows 7
Firefox 115.30.0 esr

I cannot remember. How do I place an Interent shortcut of Firefox's
current Web page on my desktop?

I first make a normal bookmark then copy and paste that bookmark to desktop.

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On 20.11.2025 17:46, s|b wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:20:37 +0100, Schugo wrote:

Should work; I just tested it on a W7 system that was collecting dust.

That indeed works, although with a wrong icon.

I tried with

<https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php>

and the shortcut shows the same as the website's favicon.

Also tried with startpage.com and mozilla.org: both shortcuts show the favicon (or a white page with the favicon).

hmm.. strange.
here FF 115 ESR / Nightly 147.a1 / Seamonkey latest
all create a blank document icon with whatever method.

Only creating a link file manually show the default browser icon.

ciao..

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David E. Ross wrote:

I can successfully drag from Windows Explorer or any folder to my
desktop and drag from my desktop to either of them.

I was basing off the "no entry" symbol you were seeing, but Reiner
assures us that's down to an incompatibility between particular versions
of firefox and windows ...

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s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:12:49 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

There isn't a padlock icon at the left side of the address bar? Drag
the padlock to the desktop. That's what DNews also suggests.

https://youtu.be/bCVG0BlD8D4?t=93

+1

but there's no need to minimize Fx.

You cannot drag anything out of a minimized window. With a maximized or fullscreened window, you also cannot drag outside the window since the
desktop (a folder), and windows for other apps (e.g., File Explorer) are
hidden underneath.

In the video, he repeatedly used wrong terminology, so go by what he
does instead of what he says. When he said "minimize" that was because
he had first needlessly maximized the Firefox window, so the desktop was
hidden to prevent dragging anything to it. What he should have said is "restore" the window, but he need not have maximized to then restore.

I only used the video to show it was the padlock icon that gets dragged
to the desktop, or into any folder (e.g., into a folder in File
Explorer), and not the other address bar icons that Ross mentioned
trying. There might be a better video, but I didn't look that hard.

Hmm, is it possible Ross' Firefox setup does not show a padlock icon?
Maybe he got overzealous with his userChrome.css file, or for settings
in about:config.
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VanguardLH wrote:

With a maximized or
fullscreened window, you also cannot drag outside the window since the desktop (a folder), and windows for other apps (e.g., File Explorer) are hidden underneath.

Unless you have multiple monitors ...

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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

With a maximized or
fullscreened window, you also cannot drag outside the window since the
desktop (a folder), and windows for other apps (e.g., File Explorer) are
hidden underneath.

Unless you have multiple monitors ...

An exception. How many users of the total have multiple monitors?
Possibly other rare exceptions, too. I've never bothered with multiple monitors. I just get a bigger monitor.

I've seen dragging of windows across monitors. Can you drag elements of
a window across monitors?

When I was looking at someone else's dual monitor setup, he could move
the mouse across the monitors. It would hit the left side of one
monitor, and go no further. Turns out he had to go into display
settings, and where the 2 monitors are shown had to drag one box
(monitor) down so its right edge was against the left edge of the other
box. But that means you can only move the mouse horizontally between
monitors. Maybe there's something to have the top of one monitor
connect to the bottom of the other without losing the other alignments,
and also be able to drag off the right side of the right monitor to have
the mouse show up at the left side of the other monitor. Guess it
depends on what mouse support is in the OS or video drivers.
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VanguardLH wrote:

How many users of the total have multiple monitors?
Possibly other rare exceptions, too.

In a work setting, most of them? One customer seems to be
mid-transition from dual-monitor to triple-monitor.

I've never bothered with multiple
monitors. I just get a bigger monitor.

I tried to resist, but when I mocked-up the next size up monitor, i felt
like I'd get "tennis spectator's neck ache", so now I have a 4K main
monitor that's a large as reasonably fits my corner desk plus a portrait companion monitor.
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:39:18 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

+1

but there's no need to minimize Fx.

You cannot drag anything out of a minimized window.

You are 100% correct.
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:51:45 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

An exception. How many users of the total have multiple monitors?
Possibly other rare exceptions, too. I've never bothered with multiple monitors. I just get a bigger monitor.

I've been using a 24" monitor for some time now, but when I moved, last
year, I got a bigger desk and I added an old 19" monitor that I still
had. IMHO 2 monitors is better than 1 giant monitor.

I've seen dragging of windows across monitors. Can you drag elements of
a window across monitors?

Yes.
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