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Open any URL with QuickSilver
Authored by: dbs on Jun 07, '07 08:33:52AM
Add a bookmark to safari:
Name: URL, URL: http://***/

Then refresh your QuickSilver list (or just wait for it to do it itself).

Type: command+space url tab cva.stanford.edu return

http://cva.stanford.edu/ will open in a new window in Safari.

No AppleScript needed, and it pops up a nice little window for entering whatever URL you want. I'm sure you can do the same thing with Butler.


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Open any URL with QuickSilver
Authored by: morespace54 on Jun 07, '07 10:59:41AM
Or simply type : "stanford" once QS has be fired up.

If you already have the website in your bookmarks or have been on the website recently, the default browser will open http://cva.stanford.edu/ in a new window. I do believe that you might need to activate the Firefox/Mozilla or Safari modules for best results (regarding the browsers' history at least).

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Open any URL with QuickSilver
Authored by: crashcane on Jun 07, '07 11:52:32AM
Is the "URL" bookmark even needed in this instance?

When I invoke Quicksilver, type "cva.stanford.edu" TAB, Quicksilver has autodetected that the text I typed is a URL, so the default Action is "Open URL", which opens the URL in my default browser.

When I type "w", "open URL" switches to "Open URL with...", and the third pane appears so I can select Safari, Camino, Firefox, Opera, etc.

If this isn't what happens in your install of Quicksilver, I would like to hear about it. One advantage/disadvantage of Quicksilver is that it does a ton of stuff "magically", but it is often hard to guess what it will do. For instance, I was trying to use Triggers to paste in commonly used text snippets, but with snippets that looked like URLs (stuff.foo.edu), which QS would autodetect as URL and "helpfully" paste in an "http://"; as well.

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Open any URL with QuickSilver
Authored by: M.F. on Jun 08, '07 06:58:53AM

If you bring up quicksilver and hit the period button (.), the input area changes to a text editing field. Type any url there, and the default action will be to go to that website.



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Open any URL with QuickSilver
Authored by: Skurfer on Jun 08, '07 09:12:33AM

Or you can tell Quicksilver (in the "Command" part of the Preferences) to automatically switch over to text mode if what you're typing doesn't match anything in the catalog. So if you type the address of a site you've never been to, it will automatically switch to text mode and automatically recognize the text as a URL, so the steps are:

  1. Invoke Quicksilver
  2. Type address
  3. Hit Return

…or you can do that complicated crap with creating shortcuts and writing Applescript and typing a lot of stuff to invoke it. ;)



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