Navigating Safari 4 tabs with Firefox shortcuts?

April 26, 2009 8:29 AM

Looking for a way to use Firefox keyboard shortcuts with Safari 4 on the Mac

I'm trying to ditch Firefox (which acts as if I'm doing some type of fancy 3D rendering everytime I open up more than a few tabs) but find myself lost without the ability to switch to a specific tab with Command - #, # being the number of the tab.

I know that in Safari 4, it is Command + Shift + { or } to go left or right through tabs, but I'm really partial to the Firefox way of doing things. Currently, Command + # in Safari takes me to a specific bookmark from the navigation bar...

So -- is there any way to change this behavior in a secret settings panel or with a 3rd party app? (btw, I'm on a Mac w/ Leopard).

Thanks for any suggestions

posted by mck9235 to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Not sure if TinkerTool will do it, but it does lots of things like that. Good luck!
posted by davoid at 9:35 AM on April 26

Just chiming in to say I'd love to know the answer to this question as well. I'm so comfortable with Firefox tab navigation that I can't use Safari - I keep losing my current page by accident when I think I'm just Command-#-ing over to another tab. It seemed like it be a trickier fix, if Safari internally doesn't even think of its tabs sequentially...
posted by pzarquon at 10:43 AM on April 26

I don't have a Mac, so I can't do this, but I found here that

This local URL will give you a comprehensive list of all the keyboard shortcuts supported in Safari:
file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Shortcuts.html

So, if you're on a Mac, theoretically you should be able to click here to see a list of keyboard shortcuts. Someone will have to check for me.
posted by koeselitz at 11:51 AM on April 26

I know that you can reprogram keyboard shortcuts via the Keyboard Shortcuts subpane of the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane. It's via this method that you could change Safari's keyboard shortcuts for Previous Tab and Next Tab to match what Firefox does. As for how to alter its Command-# behavior, that I'm unaware of. I believe there's a Firefox extension that would let you reproduce Safari's behavior there, but I don't know of anything for Safari that lets you do the reverse. Might want to browse through Pimp My Safari, though.
posted by WCityMike at 12:21 PM on April 26

I just checked -- TinkerTool does not do this.
posted by misterbrandt at 1:22 PM on April 26