Just found this in Win 7

[D-Dan]

Highlight the URL in Firefox (may work with other browsers) and then click and drag it to the taskbar. Drop and pin.

It will add a pullout menu to the browser shortcut in the start menu allowing you start your browser at the page you desire Very cool.

Steve

[rgt247]

Works with Firefox on Vista as well.

[D-Dan]

It's my new favourite feature of Windows - hmm - wonder if Ubuntu can do it - maybe time to hit the forums and suggest it

[Inkblot]

Not a FF user but as far as I know that's a default action (Without even the drag/pin bit) in most applications in Win7. In place of a recent documents that was a dozen or so documents across all applications Win7 gives each app its own recent documents in a pullout such as you describe. Excel lists my recent spreadsheets, Word my recent letters, Irfanview my recent images, Opera my recent websites and so on - or maybe I misread it and you are describing something else entirely!

[D-Dan]

Maybe something slightly different, but I can't be sure. Just checked and no such pullouts on MS Office or OpenOffice. There's one on WMP for the TV guide, which I previously assumed was by design. The Browser is the only other program I have to exhibit this behaviour. However, I have recent documents disabled, which may explain it

[Inkblot]

Hmmm, cleverer than I realised - IE8 / Opera show my most FREQUENT pages, Excel / Word and most others show my most RECENT files and Media Player has TASKS

Possibly to do with recent files, I must admit it's a pretty vanilla install of Win7, haven't changed much at all.

[Niall]

I've been using this tab url thing in Firefox for a few versions now, under Vista. I use it mainly for news sites and forum threads I'm watching rather than have them sending me emails all the time