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Here’s a nice tip on how to create a keyboard shortcut for launching Firefox in Windows. Just right click on shortcut icon of Firefox and open its Properties dialog.
Under Shortcut key in Shortcut tab press any alpha-numeric key on your keyboard and shortcut will be created as Ctrl+Alt+ [your key] e.g. if you press F on your keyboard, shortcut will be created as Ctrl+Alt+F.
This shortcut is quite useful when you need to launch Firefox, when you have several windows open and don’t want to minimize them to get to Firefox shortcut or so tired to click on start menu and browse for Firefox shortcut.
This technique can be used for almost any program, just drop its shortcut on Desktop and apply above procedure to create a shortcut. This method works both in Windows XP and Vista.
1. Click on the Start button and navigate to the place in the Start menu that has Firefox. But instead of clicking on it, hold down CTRL and drag the Firefox onto your desktop. This will create a shortcut to Firefox.
2. Test the shortcut by double clicking on it. It will bring you to the normal default start page in Firefox. Close Firefox.
3. Now right click on the shortcut and select Properties. One of the properties is the “target” which will end with firefox.exe”
4. Add a space after this, then put the URL that you want to go to in Firefox, for example http://www.jkg.in/
5. Click OK to end the properties window and test the shortcut.