Google-chrome – Make Chrome new tab links open in Safari

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Is there a way to make "open in a new tab" links in Chrome open in Safari? I'd like to use Chrome as an "email" program with just my gmail page, but I want to use Safari as my main web browser, so I would like all links to open in Safari. Can this be done? I don't mind doing a little hacking if it's necessary, and I also don't mind running Chromium instead if it's easier.

Best Answer

The easiest way is:

Make sure Safari is default browser
Right click tab URL in chrome, and click "Open URL"

This will automatically open that link in Safari.

Problem

For Linux, if you have multiple VNC servers, this same problem will occur.
That is,

$ google-chrome
Created new window in existing browser session

And no google chrome window will appear in the current X VNC session (a new tab will appear in the X session with the first instance of google-chrome).

Solution

A simple workaround is to run

$ google-chrome "--user-data-dir=${HOME}/.google-chrome/session${DISPLAY}"

This sets a unique user directory based on the X VNC instance in use. The user directory will be created as needed. The new google-chrome process will display within the current X VNC session.

Tested using Google Chrome version 22 on Ubuntu 12.04.

Google-chrome – How to get ftp:// links in Chrome (Mac) to open the connection in Transmit

This is a bug in Chromium, so it can't be achieved without a plugin.

Here is a link to the issue: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=30892

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