What happened to drag & drop onto Taskbar?

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I know that I asked this question back when we lost it in Windows 10. I am a “clean desktop club” member when it comes to the desktop. I hate seeing someone’s desktop with dozens and dozens of icons, most of which are never used and only (IMNHO) confuse things.

I was (and still am) a heavy user of the Pinned feature of the File Explorer (attached) and the ability to pin, for example, a web page to the browser icon (attached). What is worse, is that several of the pinned URLs pinned to the browser icon on the taskbar have started to stop working, telling me that the link no longer works.   Both my Chrome and Firefox icons are down to 6 links (used to have about 9 or 10)

I thought I was told when I asked previously that the feature would be added back at some point. Is there any hope? Or maybe workarounds or alternatives?

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Hank Arnold

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Is your question about “drag and drop” or pinning in File Explorer and Chrome?

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I’ talking about the ability to drag an icon representing a UR from the desktop to the Chrome (or FF) icon on the taskbar. Then I can access the url via the right click on the Chrome icon. Does this help?

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Hank Arnold

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A workaround is to pin the site from the jumplist recently closed section:

How to trick Windows 11 into allowing you to pin websites to the taskbar

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