My first thought is that the web bookmark shortcuts (whatever the heck they’re called) are completely reliant on what your default Web browser is set to: They aren’t actually associated with the browser that created them, in other words, but are just generic Web URLs for specific pages or sites on the Web. Still, it’s still definitely a supported feature in Mac, Windows and even Linux systems, and it’s supported across basically all Web browsers at this point too, so let’s figure out what’s going on!

Good timing: It was just a few days ago I wrote about how to create, manage and update your bookmarks within Google Chrome itself! What you’re doing is even more old school for most users, actually taking up desktop real estate for individual shortcut files so you can jump to favorite Web sites easily.