Since Google Chrome comes with Flash preinstalled, this is a simple way to switch to a Flash-enabled browser. When that is the case, I simply go to the Develop menu (enable it in Safari's Advanced preferences if you don’t have it) and select Open Page With > Google Chrome.app (.21). More and more webpages work fine without Flash and only the occasional video requires it. I'm describing this in more detail in this blog post, which is also reproduced below.Ĭurrently shipping Macs come without Adobe Flash Player preinstalled, and I’ve been running that same setup without Flash for quite a while now myself. The simple fix is to use an Apple Script like Mike Hardy's as a proxy to Google Chrome.
Chrome shorcuts for mac archive#
Pro Tip: I’ve been writing about the Mac since Steve Jobs worked at Apple the first time, and have a substantial archive of Mac help tutorials.Assigning a shortcut to open Safari's current page in Google is simple but breaks frequently, because the menu item name includes Chrome's version number. A bit Byzantine but once you know where the create shortcut menu item is hidden, it’s pretty easy to accomplish! I choose a regular shortcut and here’s what’s created in the “Chrome Apps” Folder on my Mac:Įasy enough to drag and drop this onto my proper Desktop or anywhere else, and now I have a handy Web page shortcut courtesy of Google Chrome. If you’re curious, create two shortcuts, one with “open as window” and the other without, then compare them when you do open ’em up from your Desktop.
But why is it so unheralded? There’s not even an explanation offered! It would be ideal for demos, trade show exhibits, freestanding survey systems, etc.
It’s like a “kiosk” version of the page and is most interesting. This is a feature that the Chrome development team seemingly can’t decide if it’s useful or not: Choose this feature and when you double-click on the shortcut, it will open in a version of Chrome that has no controls, no navigational elements, just the page and the narrowest of borders. More interesting is that humble little “ Open as window” feature. Reddit offers a pretty useless default name so I’ll definitely replace it with a descriptive one that will help me understand where the shortcut icon actually leads. Here’s what the Create Shortcut window looks like:
Since they’re just files, you can also tuck them into folders along with groupings of other files for a specific project, client or report too. But what most MacOS X users don’t realize is that there is indeed a slick way that you can add Desktop shortcuts for favorite Web sites or Web pages from Google Chrome. Neither approach is correct, of course, it’s just a matter of preferences. On the Window side it’s probably something that would get lost in all the other shortcuts on your desktop, while on the Mac side no one seems to ever put any shortcuts at all on their desktop! 🙂 It all works pretty well unless you actually want to have a Website shortcut on your desktop. Enter shortcut toolbars, shortcut menus, shortcut submenus, etc.
Then bookmarks became a thing and browser developers spent a lot of time designing different ways that you could manage dozens, hundreds or even thousands of website shortcuts. In the early days of the web, it was all about creating desktop shortcuts for favorite websites.
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