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Find And Run Robot / hotkey to launch google search in a new firefox tab
« on: July 23, 2014, 06:40 AM »
Sorry I can't quite get my head around a way to do this from farr.
I currently have a farr hotkey defined with the "Text for Search Edit Box" set to "search\s". And "search" is defined as an alias with about 15 results, the first of which is a google search. So when I use the hotkey I type my search text into farr and hit enter, which opens my browser (firefox) with the google results.
I have firefox set to open links like this in the current tab, which is what I prefer most of the time. But there are times I'd basically like farr to open a new tab in ff and then open the google results there (effectively opening my results in a new tab, but without changing that preference in firefox).
I found 'sendkeys' in farr, but can't get my head around getting farr to switch from whatever app I start in, over to Firefox, then send the keys to open a tab, then go back to farr and run the 'search' alias.
Thanks for any help!
I currently have a farr hotkey defined with the "Text for Search Edit Box" set to "search\s". And "search" is defined as an alias with about 15 results, the first of which is a google search. So when I use the hotkey I type my search text into farr and hit enter, which opens my browser (firefox) with the google results.
I have firefox set to open links like this in the current tab, which is what I prefer most of the time. But there are times I'd basically like farr to open a new tab in ff and then open the google results there (effectively opening my results in a new tab, but without changing that preference in firefox).
I found 'sendkeys' in farr, but can't get my head around getting farr to switch from whatever app I start in, over to Firefox, then send the keys to open a tab, then go back to farr and run the 'search' alias.
Thanks for any help!