John detailed how to use OS X's Keyboard preference pane to create a keyboard shortcut to quickly open the current Safari webpage in Chrome. Over the following week I noticed that, while selecting from Safari's menu: Develop > Open Page With… > Google Chrome always worked, my keyboard shortcut was not reliable.
A comment by Louije on Daniel Jalkut's 14-Jan-2011 post on using Red Sweater Software's FastScripts and Safari with Marco Arment's Instapaper identified the problem:
"Shortcuts assigned to Safari bookmarks via the Keyboard preference pane are not available until the menu has been loaded once–that is, you need to click the Bookmarks menu once per session for the [Instapaper] to work."
Bingo! Sure enough when I first open Safari, my keyboard shortcut, Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-G, does nothing. But if I select Develop > Open Page With, my keyboard shortcut then starts working and will continue to do so until I quit Safari. [The Develop menu is enabled under Safari > Preferences… > Advanced]
P.S. If you've ever wondered how to report this bug (or any other): apple.com/feedback/macosx.html or bugreport.apple.com [registered developers]
References
- Instapaper Keyboard Shortcut, Daniel Jalkut, red-sweater.com, 14-Jan-2011
- The future of notebooks: Ars reviews the 11" MacBook Air, Chris Foresman, Ars Technica, 2-Nov-2010: "having Flash installed can cut battery time considerably–as much as 33 percent in our testing."
UPDATES
- Use AppleScript to open current Safari URL in Google Chrome, TJ Luoma, TUAW.com, 14-Mar-2011