Counter-Strike 2

Counter-Strike 2

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How to create / add Bookmarks in Steam Overlay/Browser
By Z
You can add/create bookmarks to Steam Overlay UI / Steam Browser, so you can one-click open them in browser in-game. This is not super easy, but not hard at all
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How to do that:
1) Open your steam folder, navigate to \resource\layout\ folder
2) Find overlaydesktop.layout file and open it with any text editor. The file format is similar to JSON.
3) In the text editor, in "controls" section, add following line:
BookmarkID { controlname="URLLabel" labeltext="Your bookmark name here" urltext="your page URL here" style="sidemenu"}
BookmarkID is something that you will refer this bookmark in next step
4) In "layout" section, add your BookmarkID to the list in following line:
place{controls="GameGroupsButton,ChatRoomButton,DLCButton,GuideButton,,WebSiteButton,RecommendButton,WorkshopButton,Your BookmarkID here" y=50 align=right region=overlay dir=down spacing=10 }
5) Save the file and you're done!
Here is how it looks:


29 Comments
Lycro Mar 22, 2023 @ 1:26pm 
still works thanks
cleric Jul 6, 2021 @ 1:33pm 
Thanks!
class101 [deck] Jun 30, 2021 @ 6:26pm 
Just wanted to add that -noverifyfiles also stops the files from being updated upon Steam updates. So the only way to get it overwritten is if something officially changed inside.

So that is perfect :)
class101 [deck] Jun 29, 2021 @ 9:17am 
Still working few years later thank you.

You can add to Steam the following launch option to stop it from reverting the file each restart:
-noverifyfiles

There are other methods to stop Steam from updating the file but I won't post this here as it also stops Steam from being updated and is not the right way to go.

As long as you do not edit much than this file, -noverifyfiles should be safe to use. Just make a backup when Steam updates.
pertzel Aug 7, 2020 @ 10:11pm 
Ha, that's exactly why I'm here, to add a creators.tf bookmark
some bi girl Jul 30, 2020 @ 6:16pm 
gonna be good for creators.tf contracts bookmark for tf2
gonk May 27, 2020 @ 7:15pm 
You can also use this: https://custeam.io/
rbn Jan 4, 2020 @ 6:14am 
@Frank Thanks you, this is what i was looking for, indeed. CuSteam
AyleidRuin Feb 9, 2019 @ 6:55am 
Thank you, Dark:showtongue:
slyk ⚜ Jul 14, 2018 @ 5:25pm 
how do we make it so that they don't go away after every update or whenever a different user logs into steam?