Personally, the only website URLs I have on my desktop are those for my videochat 'webapps'.....which run from within 'Puppy's Chrome-portable browser. This lets me choose either Google 'Meet', Jitsi 'Meet', M$ Teams OR Zoom.
These are called from a single icon, which launches a YAD-powered, 'selector' mini-GUI. Each launcher here calls a dedicated, custom launch script which I've set-up, in the Chrome-portable directory, for each chat app.....which then launches the respective 'webapp' AS a 'desktop client' running within its own window.
These can also be launched from their own respective Menu entries.....which then
further permits the addition of these launchers to the 'QuickLaunch' area immediately to the right of the 'Menu' button in the tray.
Never let it be said I don't do things thoroughly!
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This 'webapp' functionality is peculiar to the Chromium ecosystem, and dates back more than a decade to somewhere around Chrome 35 or 36 (approx 2013/early 2014).
Firefox has never had this ability.
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@Brian Alex :-
If it was me, I would set up desktop icon launchers for each URL that simply call the 'default browser'.....and use the website URL as the 'argument'. This
should be more stable.
(I can't give specific instructions, because I haven't run a standard, 'mainstream' distro since at least late 2014.....and 'Puppy's' way of doing a lot of things is rather unique, so our methods for making stuff work wouldn't function for you.
This is where I'll leave it to our bevy of Mint experts, since they have direct, up-to-date experience of using it.)
However, as you can already see, certain basic principles operate across the Linux community.....regardless of how they're actually implemented. The concept of using a website URL as the 'argument' when calling the 'default' browser is a long-standing one.....and is a pretty reliable method.
Mike.
