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Internet Shortcut - URL - Uniform Resource Locator

What is url file? Understanding and opening url files

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Internet Shortcut - URL - Uniform Resource Locator

An url file extension is related to Uniform Resource Locator and stores internet shortcut in Windows OS.

Further details

The url file extension is used in Microsoft Windows operating systems to store Internet shortcut - URL (Uniform Resource Locator) with additional information (icon, icon path, date modified, paths etc.).

The classic URL file format is stored in simple text and it has a format similar to an ini file.

MIME types:
application/internet-shortcut

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Microsoft Edge

The faster, safer browser designed for Windows 10

Firefox

A popular free web browser from Mozilla

Google Chrome

A popular Internet browser from Google

What file extension actually is?

Simply put, file extensions are the characters after the dot in the computer file name, so for example document-name.pdf has file extension „pdf“. This helps Windows to identify which program should be used to open the file.

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