If you don't use OmniWeb's "Check for updated bookmarks" feature, you can use OmniWeb's dock icon contextual menu for quick access for your favorite bookmarks.
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Here's how to make this trick work:
ps: This trick works because the redirection makes OmniWeb think these URLs are continuously 'changing', and puts them into the dock icon's contextual menu. One little quirk, though. Every selection of a redirect URL lets the web server write to /var/log/httpd/access_log.
Read the rest of the article for the how-to...
Here's how to make this trick work:
- Disable bookmark update checking in OmniWeb's preferences. Choose 'Preferences...' in the 'OmniWeb' menu, then select pane 'Bookmarks', then set 'By default, check bookmarks every' to 'never'.
- Take your favorite cgi-executing webserver, in our example the Apache installed on Mac OS X. Create an executable CGI-script named "redirect.cgi". Take the following lines and copy and paste them into your Terminal window; this will create the script:
( echo '#!''/usr/bin/perl' ;\
Now set the file to executable with:
echo 'use CGI;' ;\
echo 'print CGI->redirect($ENV{QUERY_STRING});' ) \
> /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/redirect.cgi% chmod 755 /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/redirect.cgi
- Add "http://your.favorite.url/" to OmniWeb's bookmarks, then open the bookmark inspector, and change they entry. Change the URL from "http://your.favorite.url/" to "http://localhost/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?http://your.favorite.url/". Don't forget to enable 'Has unviewed changes' ...
ps: This trick works because the redirection makes OmniWeb think these URLs are continuously 'changing', and puts them into the dock icon's contextual menu. One little quirk, though. Every selection of a redirect URL lets the web server write to /var/log/httpd/access_log.
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