Safari Quick Search

Within OS X, Firefox has the rather useful keyboard shortcut ⌘K to have the Google Search box gain focus. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case in Safari. If, like me, you find yourself constantly switching between the two browsers, the lack of consistency can be annoying.

Here’s how to remedy that:

  1. Open System Preferences from the Apple menu and choose “Keyboard & Mouse”
  2. Click the + symbol to add a new shortcut
  3. Change the “Application” drop-down to Safari
  4. In the “Menu Title” field, type Google Search followed by the keystroke option+semi-colon. You should end up with the field containing Google Search…
  5. Enter ⌘K in the “Keyboard Shortcut” field.

Finally, quit and re-start Safari to start using the new shortcut.

This tip is correct as at OS X 10.4.9.

June 4th, 2007 | Apple/OS X |

Comments so far...

  1. Adam said:

    Tony! This is awesome. Thank you so much.

    Good to see you’re writing again… I’ll have to get on the ball… ;-)

    June 4th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

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