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From docks to desktop gadgets, the Start menu to the Start screen, there are many ways to launch applications on your PC. But most of these are quite bulky, giving you a new interface to explore, and perhaps tying up valuable screen real estate.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re looking for something simpler, then, more lightweight, then you might be interested in a new Firefox add-on called\u00a0Easy Access<\/a>.<\/p>\n Install the extension and you\u2019ll see an icon appear to the right of the Firefox status bar. Clicking this reveals a drop-down menu with some default entries \u2013 Notepad, Paint, Calculator, My Computer, Switch Profile \u2013 and selecting any of these will launch that program.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a \u201cManage Your Own Easy Access\u201d option which allows you to add further programs of your own (you\u2019re able to specify the program name, and, optionally, any command line switches).<\/p>\n And you can also add any or all of these program icons to the Easy Access bar, which should ensure you\u2019re able to launch any of them with a single click.<\/p>\n As launchers go, Easy Access isn\u2019t exactly sophisticated. There\u2019s no folder or other mechanism for grouping your programs, for instance. You can\u2019t reorder them. There\u2019s no way to provide a custom icon, or any similar more advanced customisations. We didn\u2019t even see an option to remove the default menu entries.<\/p>\n Still, if you almost always have a Firefox window open then\u00a0Easy Access<\/a>\u00a0does do exactly what its name suggests, giving you simple one-click access to any extra tools or applications you need, and if that sounds interesting then we\u2019d recommend you give it a closer look.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> Liv friis-larsen<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n From docks to desktop gadgets, the Start menu to the Start screen, there are many ways to launch applications on your PC. But most of these are quite bulky, giving you a new interface to explore, and perhaps tying up valuable screen real estate. If you\u2019re looking for something simpler, then, more lightweight, then you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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