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Nod5:
siouxdax, maybe you could use a url shorter site ( http://notlong.com/links/
 ) or an online clipboard site ( http://cl1p.net/ ) together with a script?

It would do this process: you press a hotkey and a script on the URL sending computer grabs the URL from FF, uploads it onto the url shorter/clipboard site. On the URL receiving computer, you press another hotkey and the script downloads and then launches the URL.

While I have no finished script to give you I have the feeling that it wouldn't be so complex to construct. Note that since you could set the script to recycle the same clipboard page/url shortcut you wouldn't have to worry about deleting old URLs (which was your objection to mousers suggestion about bookmark syncing).

steeladept:
I lined it out coz I realised that the browser, though loaded from the remote machine, would still run on the local machine where the command was issued. :)


-nosh (March 22, 2008, 08:15 AM)
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Well Duh.  Hmmm.  Maybe I should wait till I am thinking more clearly to respond.  :P  I alway get lost in little details like that.  Still, I think it might be possible using something like autohotkey and  remote computer access...Not unlike opening the CDRom drawer on a remote machine.  I had a co-worker who used to do that to people all the time just to see if they could figure it out.  I know the difference between hardware and software with this kind of thing, but it still seems like there should be an easy way to do this.

Anyway, thanks Nosh for the reminder.  I guess since that was a no-brainer, that means I have no brain? ;D ;D ;D :-\ :-\

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