This extension is essential for anyone currently using Ubuntu Linux with Gnome in 2022, where saving shortcuts isn't working properly (see https://askubuntu.com/a/1398066/1036263 ). Recommend also pairing with weblocopener.

LockeLamora: you may want to write the above usecase in the description and also try to word things in a way that mozilla's addons search SEO finds 'webloc' - I found this later on from a separate google search.

I like to be able to save useful youtube videos + websites that I come across ... but I need a way to be able to keep my library organised.

Traditional Bookmarks vs Shortcut Files:
- I find its was easier and quicker to sort them into folders, rename and move using the native file explorer / mac finder interface than any bookmarks management plugin I have tried.
- Plus I think perhaps the biggest benefit is the the shortcut files can be saved next to other files that are relevant to. Eg I can save a link to Led Zep Guitar tab next to the Led Zep mp3. I find this way I end up actual using the links I save, rather than bookmarks which half of them I never end up opening them again.

I know theoretically you can do this with the normal bookmarks functionality, but in my experience its ways more tedius, takes way longer.

This solution is perfect 10/10. Having the ability to edit some parameters of the filename when saving would make this 11 out of 10. Eg being able to swap 'Title' 'Youtube' to 'Youtube' 'Title' but I dont even know if this is possible.

But regardless, thank you, this extension rocks :)

When I save it as url and doble click it I get message box ...file came from another computer. It is not so when drag link from chrome(it is again .url link). So, author did not do simple job. BTW no options to drag link from firefox to desktop. favorites bar in firefox is not high enough....now yopu know why all people like chrome.

needs an option to replace the standard bookmark button in firefox (the "star" symbol in the adress-bar).

Other than that i am very happy that i can now manage bookmarks in the project folders that i work with.
This was one of the features i was missing when i came from internet explorer.

Thank you for this great extension! I configured it so that CTRL-D saves a .URL file to my desktop on my Mac instantly. And no more .webloc files. Super handy!

Does what I want. Simple. Effective. I'm just not giving the fifth star because I would have liked lnk files for Windows and save links with the context menu and not only the page itself

Works well, but could you please, please add the ability to assign a direct keyboard shortcut to creating the URL shortcut? (Settings can be accessed through the last item on the cogwheel menu for the addons page in Firefox.) Many thanks!

Edit: So it does! Don't know how I missed that. Excellent, thanks a lot!

Had to reinstall Firefox on Windows 10. Lost my profile and Add-ons. Reinstalled Firefox, then QuickCut. Under Options selected (1) Choose a type: Windows .url, (2) Always save as: Not Set (3) checked the Context Menu box, and (4) typed ‘Saved Links’ (without quotes) into the Folder box (after first creating the soft symbolic link in a terminal: mklink /D %HOMEPATH%\Downloads\Desktop %HOMEPATH%\Desktop. I then hit the Save button. From the (right-click) Context menu I saved a link to a website – expecting the same behavior from QuickCut that I used to get: the link is created on my Windows 10 Desktop. But now it’s created in my (symbolically-linked) folder on my Desktop: Saved Links. Is there any way to get the link to appear on my Desktop directly (as it once did) rather than in the folder on my Desktop (Saved Links)? Five stars, not four, if I can get the link placed directly on my Windows 10 Desktop! (BTW: I built a one-click vbs client script solution to stop the warning that appears when trying to open the QuickCut link. Can share if anyone is interested.)

Works well, except for the security box that pops up every time I open an url shortcut. This has been mentioned several times by other reviewers but I can't find any response. Thanks

Does not work with Firefox 76.0 - please correct this great add-on. :)

Thank you! I'm another for whom DeskCut was essential, and for whom QuickCut will become an essential replacement.

Like some other reviewers, I have had times when it does nothing, doesn't create anything. Like them, that's a problem: you don't want to have to constantly monitor whether it's worked or not. So I've tried to dig to investigate the problem:

A typical problem would be saving a QuickCut of an individual tweet. And here's where I think the problem comes. QuickCut uses the page title as a filename; twitter uses the tweet content as the page title; the content can contain up to 280 chars, including ones that are invalid. QuickCut seems to be okay at stripping out invalid characters, but not at stripping back excess characters. If you use the 'Save As' screen you can strip them back manually and it works. But if you set it to automatically save to default folder, it treats it as an invalid filename and does nothing.

So could it - by default or as a preference - limit the length of the title, as that would seem to solve the problem? (If relevant, this is on Linux)

I really want it to just work in the background as DeskCut did...

Thank you again for your work on this.

It does exactly what it says it does. Nothing more I could ask for.

I've been using your QuickCut for a long time. Now, after updating FireFox, it has been disabled and blocked from being installed. I hope that you are working on making it meet Mozilla's rquirements. As far as I was concerned, it was the best app of its type for FF.

Thanks for this. Long time user of Deskcut so glad to have this. One question - whenever I open a URL a dialog box asks me if I want to open this file. Is there a way to avoid this and open the URL directly?

I have set Mozilla to save to the desktop as default and also to prompt for location, so I get a dialog box that allows me to edit the url and location.

If I save without editing the name the link works with no warning. The security warning appears only after i rename the shortcut.

The file save dialog box should default to *.url as opposed to *.*

Not clear why I can not edit the saved URL but can edit the ones I drag to the desktop. Not yet clear if it's useful if I loose the favicon and need to accept the security warnings. Rather a bit more work to set up something I will frequently use to work and display right.

is that so hard to add "save location" and edit "name edit before save" option? or you could not how to coding that?

Thank you for this add-on. Please add option to save to desktop directly and also to use same site name.

QuickCut is very good but for one thing. Once I save a link, every time I use it from the context menu, I always get a Security worning from one of my anti-malware programs, Either Firefox Bit Defender. Microsoft Security Essentials or MalwareBytes. The only two options I have are to cdancel or open. There is no [checkbox] Don't shw me this again. The Security warning tells me that the file type is unknown. It looks like a Microsoft object. Having to futz with this every time is annoying and dies detract because of the PITA factor. A good 4 stars that should be 5