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Out of date Safari?
#31724 11/07/14 12:59 AM
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In another thread, ryck posted

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I use Safari almost exclusively. Periodically I find a site that doesn't like to play with Safari, so I'll load the page in FireFox.

and since I've run into the same issue, as, I'm certain, have others, Snowy junkies in particular, I'm re-posting this very helpful AppleScript (I think dkmarsh wrote it. Sorry, no link. frown ) that opens your front Safari page in Firefox. (I've got it hot keyed by Butler.)

Code:
tell application "Safari"
	activate
	set theURL to URL of document 1
end tell
do shell script "open -a Firefox.app " & quoted form of theURL

Note that it can't get you all the way to a page that requires log-in for access.


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Re: Out of date Safari?
artie505 #31726 11/07/14 10:53 AM
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An alternative is to enable the Develop menu (you can do this with the Parameters tab of OnyX). Then, you can open any Safari page with Firefox or another browser of your choice.


Jon

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Re: Out of date Safari?
jchuzi #31727 11/07/14 11:31 AM
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The non-mouse-averse can also drag a Safari URL from the address bar and drop it on another browser's Dock icon.



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