Create toolbar shorcuts to certain files in Safari

Feb 03, '03 08:31:09AM

Contributed by: ateles

As I was reading a recent hint on how to change the Finder's window focus, I discovered this hint. I was dragging a PDF file to a Finder window, and by accident I dropped it on the bookmark bar in Safari. Safari asked me what name I wanted to give this bookmark and voila, I have a shortcut to a file in the bookmark bar!!

I think Safari will do this with most files as long as it has a plugin to read the file (I have a PDF browser plugin). Useful if you consult certain documents or graphics frequently and you don't want to open their native applications.

[Editor's note: This is a useful trick for things like QuickTime movies and HTML instructional pages -- I now have a folder of HTML help pages for a few key apps that I reference often. I'm not sure why I never tried this in other browsers, but it works just fine in Chimera, but not Mozilla (the only two thers I use any more). Safari is actually a bit more restrictive than Chimera in that if it can't handle a file type, it won't let you drop it on the shortcuts bar.]

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