With my increased usage of Chrome, I send URLs between browsers more frequently. This just at the time my trial license of Choosy has expired.
The thought occurred to me that maybe this is a problem that LaunchBar could solve, if I just dug in a little bit. Turns out LaunchBar is easily up to the task. Here’s the sequence:
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Copythe URL to the clipboard (Control-click on the link in the browser) -
Option-Command-\, should bring up the clipboard history with the copied URL first at the top of the list (Key sequence may have been customized in your LaunchBar, check under Preferences > Clipboard) -
Tab, browser selections come up -
Return, opens in the selected library
One more gesture, link to clipboard, than Choosy, but it’s a start.
I’m also thinking there’s probably a way to use scripting to send the currently selected URL to LaunchBar’s “Open Location” action. The key part is to get the URL to a point where you can actually select from the various installed browsers. Turns out LaunchBar’s provision for browser selection (you can just Tab when a URL is the current target object), works pretty well. And it’s handy all throughout LaunchBar.