Comments on: CMD-K for searching in Safari

By: Matt Berther

Matt Berther — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:48:04 +0000

@jerry: thank goodness for Time Machine, huh?

Jerry Rocteur — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:41 +0000

Note that Mike Moore’s default write instructions completely screwed up Safari to the point that it no longer worked.

I had to restore a copy of com.apple.Safari.plist for it to work again:

cp /Volumes/new_backup/Users/jerry/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist .

Matt Berther — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:24:04 +0000

@jerry: Not quite the point of the post, but glad to help… :)

Jerry Rocteur — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:15:08 +0000

Thanks for the ⌘k tip in Firefox, I didn’t know it ;-)

Matt Berther — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:12:49 +0000

@mike: Even though CMD-OPT-F feels better, it still gives me the confusion between the two browsers. The terminal setting is nice though.

Mike Moore — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:47:36 +0000

Oh, and the default keystroke to go to Safari’s search box is ⌘-OPT-F, which is very similar to ⌘-F for the find on the page.

Mike Moore — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:34:36 +0000

Or, you could set this using the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents ‘{“Google Search…”=”⌘k”;}’