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Adding an internet link to the desktop on MacBook Pro

When adding a link to the desktop, why is there no picture, like if you tried to do that with a simple google shortcut, for me, it comes up with 'WEBLOC' written under a symbol of the safari icon with both being on a white page. Does that mean if you want it to have a picture of the website you're visiting, you have to manually customise it to make it what you want, every time?


Thanks very much.

Posted on Jul 21, 2020 4:41 PM

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Posted on Jul 22, 2020 2:18 PM

You may want to consider saving whatever site it is as a bookmark in your browser. Your desktop will quickly become visually confusing so you won't be able to find anything easily. I have my bookmarks categorized into folders and also use the tab bar in the browser with a bunch of them which are easily accessible with one click in a new tab. See a partial screenshot of my tab bar:


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Jul 22, 2020 2:18 PM in response to JMD29_

You may want to consider saving whatever site it is as a bookmark in your browser. Your desktop will quickly become visually confusing so you won't be able to find anything easily. I have my bookmarks categorized into folders and also use the tab bar in the browser with a bunch of them which are easily accessible with one click in a new tab. See a partial screenshot of my tab bar:


Adding an internet link to the desktop on MacBook Pro

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