Spotlight your way to the topsites page in Safari 4 Beta

Mar 30, '09 07:30:04AM

Contributed by: jehrler

As this site has pointed out, you can set your homepage to (or create a bookmark for) the new Top Sites page in Safari 4 Beta by using the URL topsites://. I wanted to be able to access the bookmark I made for this page from Spotlight. When I tried though, I got an error dialog saying that "There is no default application for URL topsites://."

RCDefaultApp, which I use, lets me change URL's default apps, but I can't add URL types. User shellac over at the Macintosh Achaia at arstechnica pointed me to More Internet, which allows one to add URL types (as well as change their handling apps). So I added topsites:// as a URL type, and specified that it open in Safari 4 Beta.

This works like a charm. Now when I Spotlight my Top Sites bookmark (or click on a topsites:// link), it opens the Top Sites page in Safari 4 Beta.

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