Easily open a URL from Safari in Firefox

Aug 24, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: matsur

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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