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Switching tabs in Safari 4 with shortcuts, just like in Firefox

So I’ve been a big fan and heavy user of the Flock web browser for several years, but I’m finding that I’ve stopped using it’s built-in features lately and, because it’s based on Firefox 3.x and hasn’t been upgraded to the 3.5 engine, it’s become increasingly bloated and slow and I’m ready to change to something blazingly fast and simple.

I’m using Chrome at work on my MacBook Pro and I’m liking it, but unfortunately there is no PPC version of Chrome that I can run on my G5 at home and so my only alternative is to use Safari.  I’m okay with that, except that the tab-switching shortcuts for Safari are absolute crap.  “Command+Left/Right Arrow” isn’t a very efficient way to navigate your tabs.  Firefox (Flock) and Chrome both use the “Command+Number Key” shortcut, which I love and use constantly.  By default, that shortcut in Safari loads bookmarks from your Bookmarks Bar… UGH.

Then I found this great little How-To blog post that has solved the problem in just 3 easy steps.

  1. Download a tiny utility.
  2. Download some preformatted scripts.
  3. Configure the utility in 30 seconds.

Like magic… it works perfectly. Hooray!

Click here to visit the great post by Paul Kretek.

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  1. tj said: This is going to be an article on TUAW :-) Thanks for the inspiration! I will name a pixel on my iPad in your honor
  2. nilszero said: Would SysPrefs > Keyboard Shortcuts have worked here?
  3. globochem said: nice! i use FF on my imac but it’s just too bloated/slow for my macbook these days so i started using safari on the macbook. the lack of #-for-tab shortcut has annoyed me as well. gotta try this.
  4. eoporto said: STEVE I LOVE YOU. SO F’ING MUCH RIGHT NOW. SO SO SO SO MUCH.
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