Posts tagged "keyboard-shortcuts"

I followed John Gruber's suggestion and removed Flash Player from my Mac. Like John, I've come to rely upon Google Chrome for viewing the occasional Flash movie. As a result I've become proficient at the keyboard dance required to open in Chrome the page I'm currently viewing in Safari:

1. ⌘L (File > Open Location…)
2. ⌘C (Edit > Copy)
3. ⌘Space (invoke Quicksilver/Spotlight)
4. C-H-R-↩ (open Google Chrome)
5. ⌘L (File > Open Location…)
6. ⌘V (Edit > Paste)
7. ↩ (go, go, go!)

Well, I've performed this dance for the last time. I now do this instead:

1. ⌥⌘G

Credit for this simple but brilliant idea goes to Rob McBroom. Rob's post on opening pages in Google Chrome lists the (very easy) steps required to enable this shortcut.

I've been using OS X almost exclusively for the last three or four years, but it was only recently that I discovered the system-wide method for changing keyboard shortcuts. I think the reason that this feature eluded me for so long is that so many of the hours I've spent on OS X have involved the use of the Adobe applications Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, which provide their own means of changing keyboard shortcuts. I assumed that since application developers sometimes provide their own interfaces for changing keyboard shortcuts, the operating system must lack this functionality. I was wrong.