Posts tagged "safari"

Safari keyboard shortcut to open current page in Google Chrome

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.

Update —

Chris points out that John himself mentioned this trick in his aforelinked post.