Shortcut to open a website using a specific browser

You can't do this with a shortcut as there can be only one browser file association. You can, however, do what you want with a batch file(s).

 Below is an example for you that will open a site in Internet Explorer.  (My default browser is Firefox.  I made this batch to enable quickly opening selected sites in IE.)

In this case I have a command line parameter so I can drag a link to it and I also added it as a Sent To shortcut.  That enables right clicking on a saved link and sending to IE.cmd (the name of my batch file).

You could replace the %1 with a hard coded URL if you like for a specific site.  Note of course, you will also need to set the program path and name per the browser you want to use.

start "" "\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"  %1

exit

I think your the answers given have overcomplicated this.  I needed to do the same thing and found and answer at: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1910024,00.asp

Simply put, you locate the exe for the browser you want to launch, create a shortcut, and in the "Target" text box in a shortcut, precede the http:// address of the desired web page with the path to exe file enclosed in quotes.  On my computer, to launch the URL above, using Firefox that string of characters would be:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1910024,00.asp

Note: you must include the quotations if the path has spaces in it.

Hope that helps.

Bob Oxford

How can this be marked for an answer? Simply adjust the shortcut with the path of the browser = problem solved.

For example, if Firefox is your default browser and you want to open a shortcut in Internet Explorer. Create a shortcut in following format:

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" URL

This is not possible as double clicking the shortcut will invoke whichever default browser is set and site will open in that. In order to open different websites in different browsers you will have to open the browser and type the address to open the site.

Just did and it works fine.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" http://google.com

it works with Firefox and IE11 but not with Chrome

this one is bad:

start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"  %1

exit

the ones below work:

start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"  %1

exit

start "" "\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"  %1

exit

Chrome by itself appears quite happy as a browser and the hard-coded line below works too

start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"  http://www.google.ca

exit

The version of Chrome is:  33.0.1750.154 m