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Easily open a URL from Safari in Firefox Web Browsers
I've seen other ways to go about this, but here's a nice and clean way to switch from Safari to Firefox on a misbehaving page. First, make sure you have the Safari debug menu enabled.

On the Debug menu in Safari, the Open Page With menu item will list your installed browsers; assuming you have Firefox installed, you'll see an entry for Open Page With » Firefox.app. Now quit Safari, and go to the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel, click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, and create a new keyboard shortcut. Choose Safari as the application and enter Firefox.app as the menu title. I chose Command-Option-R as my shortcut, but feel free to choose whatever you think logical. Relaunch Safari and try your new shortcut. Note the same trick works with any browser in the Open Page With sub-menu.

[robg adds: On my machine, Firefox was listed without the .app extension, so that's what I used for the new keyboard shortcut. Just match what you see in the menu on the shortcut panel and it should work fine. Note that if you have Saft installed, you'll have to remove it to add new shortcuts -- at least I had to. With Saft installed and active, newly assigned shortcuts didn't show in the Debug menu. They did appear when I launched Safari after removing Saft, though.]
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Easily open a URL from Safari in Firefox
Authored by: MJCube on Aug 24, '07 08:21:17AM
Rob, what keyboard shortcut did you assign for Firefox? Was it Shift-Command-something? Those two modifiers are used for shortcuts in the Services Menu, and I find that those are assigned at runtime with a different mechanism than our accustomed method. Take a look at /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Info.plist and you'll see that shortcuts there are assigned without typing @$ (for ⇧⌘), only the letter. But the actual Services Menu shortcuts are always ⇧⌘Letter anyway. This seems to make them override assignment of the same keys to "normal" menu items.

I've been using Saft and was unhappy when one of the keys in its Safari > Block Images and Plugins > submenu conflicted with another shortcut I had assigned in my Services Menu. I was never able to find the Saft menu code or a .plist to modify (anyone?) But eventually I realized I could edit Safari's .plist to change the unwanted Saft shortcut to something else, and that lets my other Service shortcut work again.

I'm betting that a shortcut that doesn't conflict with those Saft submenu items would work even with Saft running.

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Easily open a URL from Safari in Firefox
Authored by: baba on Aug 24, '07 08:49:00AM

This doesn't work for me, either on my Intel tower or my G4 powerbook. The key command (I tried several combinations) always shows up in the correct place in the debug menu. Also the Debug menu label flashes in repsonse to the key command. But nothing happens beyond that. Navigating via the mouse works normally.



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Easily open a URL from Safari in Firefox
Authored by: baba on Aug 24, '07 08:54:36AM

Ah, I retract that. Sorry. I was entering "Open Page With" in the menu title.



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A Drag and Drop Solution
Authored by: googoo on Aug 24, '07 08:58:30AM

I usually do it this way. Click on the icon on the left of URL on the Safari toolbar (the favicon) and drag it onto the Firefox icon in your dock. Drop the URL on the Firefox icon, and viola!

-Mark



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A Drag and Drop Solution
Authored by: ashorlivs on Aug 24, '07 10:00:27AM

"voilà!" = )



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Works great with Paparazzi, too
Authored by: jvr on Aug 24, '07 10:40:36AM
Good hint. This also works nicely for adding a shortcut for capturing images of web pages using Paparazzi! — a utility that allows you to capture a screenshot of an entire web page, not just the area that is visible within your browser window. (I assigned Ctrl-Opt-4, so that I mentally connect this shortcut with OS X's Cmd-Shift-4 screenshot shortcut.)

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