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How To: Opening A Webpage From The Dock
Do you go to a certain website more than others?
Well if this is the case then there may be a quicker way for you to access your favourite sites.
Normally, when accessing a bookmarked site a user needs to have their web browser open. However, you can create a link to any web page in your dock and this is how to do it.
First, from your browser click on the icon next to the website address. This logo is most commonly called a Favicon.
Click and drag the Favicon to the righthand side of your dock where your documents and download folders reside.
You will notice as shown above that a weblink will be placed in your dock and upon scrolling over it indicates that it is Google.
Unfortunately, the Favicon of the site doesn’t show up in the dock. This limitation is most probably due to the Favicon being a very low resolution graphic and surprisingly the icons in your dock are a very high resolution by comparison.
That aside as soon as you click on the dock item your web browser will launch taking you directly to the page requested.
