SharePoint Site Settings and Site Contents Browser Shortcuts

By Denis Molodtsov

Published in SharePoint

July 14, 2026

1 min read

SharePoint Site Settings and Site Contents Browser Shortcuts

The Problem

The Workaround

How to Add a Bookmark

Open Site Settings

Open Site Contents

The Problem

Lately, on many SharePoint Online tenants, I noticed that the cog wheel (settings) menu takes ages to load.

On some SharePoint tenants, the cog wheel button takes ages to load

The Workaround

These two scripts jump straight to Site Settings or Site Contents of the site or subsite you are on. Save each one as a bookmark and click it from any SharePoint page.

How to Add a Bookmark

Right-click the bookmarks bar and choose Add page (Chrome) or Add this page to favorites bar (Edge).
Name it, e.g. Open Site Settings.
Inside the URL field, paste the code below.
Chrome and Edge might strip the javascript: prefix on paste. If so, type javascript: back in front of the pasted text.

Edit bookmark dialog with the script pasted into the URL field

This is how the bookmarks appear in the browser:

Open Site Settings

javascript

javascript:void(async()=>{const w=window.open('about:blank','_blank');try{let u=(typeof _spPageContextInfo!=='undefined'&&_spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl)?_spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl:null;if(!u){u=location.href.split('?')[0].split('#')[0];for(const s of['/_layouts/','/_api/','/sitepages/','/lists/','/forms/','/pages/','/siteassets/','/_app/']){const i=u.toLowerCase().indexOf(s);if(i>-1){u=u.substring(0,i);break}}u=u.replace(/\/[^\/]*\.aspx$/i,'')}const r=await fetch(u+'/_api/contextinfo',{method:'POST',headers:{Accept:'application/json;odata=verbose'},credentials:'same-origin'});if(!r.ok)throw new Error('HTTP '+r.status);const t=(await r.json()).d.GetContextWebInformation.WebFullUrl+'/_layouts/15/settings.aspx';if(w){w.location=t}else{location.href=t}}catch(e){if(w)w.close();alert('Could not resolve the SharePoint site from this page. '+e.message)}})();

Open Site Contents

javascript

javascript:void(async()=>{const w=window.open('about:blank','_blank');try{let u=(typeof _spPageContextInfo!=='undefined'&&_spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl)?_spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl:null;if(!u){u=location.href.split('?')[0].split('#')[0];for(const s of['/_layouts/','/_api/','/sitepages/','/lists/','/forms/','/pages/','/siteassets/','/_app/']){const i=u.toLowerCase().indexOf(s);if(i>-1){u=u.substring(0,i);break}}u=u.replace(/\/[^\/]*\.aspx$/i,'')}const r=await fetch(u+'/_api/contextinfo',{method:'POST',headers:{Accept:'application/json;odata=verbose'},credentials:'same-origin'});if(!r.ok)throw new Error('HTTP '+r.status);const t=(await r.json()).d.GetContextWebInformation.WebFullUrl+'/_layouts/15/viewlsts.aspx';if(w){w.location=t}else{location.href=t}}catch(e){if(w)w.close();alert('Could not resolve the SharePoint site from this page. '+e.message)}})();