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I’ve updated the Chrome version of my nvIt extension, which gives you various ways of creating notes in nvALT from your browser. If daScheme is 'otherbrowser-chrome' thenĮlse if daScheme is 'otherbrowser-safari' then Set daScheme to characters 1 thru offs of a_URL as string

Set this_URL to 'http' & this_URL as string Set this_URL to characters offs thru (count of a_URL) of a_URL as string

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Purely as a reference, so you know what you’re installing and how OtherBrowser works, I’ll paste in the Applescript source code below (you can also read it by showing OtherBrowser’s package contents, and checking out …/OtherBrowser.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/main.scpt) on open location a_URL

To Use: click bookmarklet when alternate browsing experience is desired…

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Go to the browser you want to install the bookmarklet it in, create a new bookmark, paste the bookmarklet in as its address.Copy the browser appropriate bookmarklet.Open the text file titled “OtherBrowser Bookmarklets” in a text editor (TextEdit is fine).The app will launch and immediately quit. All this does is get you past Mountain Lion’s gatekeeper (sorry, I haven’t signed this) and to make sure OtherBrowser’s URL schemes get registered with OS X. Right-click (or control-click) on OtherBrowser to bring up the contextual menu and select “Open” to launch it once.Your Applications folder is fine (as it is an application), but it’s a tiny app that you never launch directly. Drag OtherBrowser somewhere on your mac.So right-click on a link and send that from Safari to Chrome. I might could build a browser extension that lets you use the OtherBrowser bookmarklet from a contextual menu. Let’s call it a beta and all disclaimers related to it being a beta apply. I should say this sounds like a lot, and is a mouthful (or keyboardful) to write. Which sends the URL to OtherBrowser which sends it along to the other browser. So along with the app itself, I’ve included a javascript bookmarklet for each browser that takes the url in your current tab at switches it to one of these URL schemes. When OtherBrowser gets its hands on that URL, it sends safari url’s to safari, and chrome url’s to chrome.

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OtherBrowser registers two new URL schemes: otherbrowser-safari:// otherbrowser-chrome://Īnytime you open a url on a mac with OtherBrowser installed that starts with one of those schemes (instead of, say, that url gets sent to OtherBrowser instead of your Mac’s default browser. OtherBrowser works by using OS X’s URL scheme support. OtherBrowser works in the reverse direction as well (Chrome to Safari), it just requires a slight change to your bookmarklet. Hit my OtherBrowser bookmarklet (cmd–5 in safari for the fifth bookmark in the toolbar) and that site pops open in flash supporting Chrome.

I use this a lot when browsing on Safari I come across a site that requires flash. The main use case here is a bookmarklet in your browser’s toolbar that will automatically send the current page to your other browser. OtherBrowser is a VERY simple (21 lines of code) applescript application that makes it very simple to send a url to a specific browser (chrome and safari only) on your mac. But none of them offered up what I wanted, which is a bookmarklet sitting in my bookmarks toolbar that I click and, shazam, the current page in the current browser is opened in the other browser. I know other folks have offered up excellent tips, tricks, and scripts for grabbing your current page in Safari and opening it in Chrome.

So I find myself switching between browsers a fair amount. I’m also trying to keep from installing Flash system wide, which means I can’t view flash on Safari. Safari’s UI just seems more polished, and less intrusive. I can’t really say why, maybe I’m just in the mood for change. Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, and with it Safari 6, I’ve been doing my hardest to switch back to Safari as my default browser.

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