Yes­ter­day I blogged about the nifty little Open in Fire­fox script that I made. As it turns out, there is an even better way to this, using some fancy Quick­sil­ver magic.

• Another Quick­sil­ver Tuto­r­ial: Gold Trig­ger

By using Proxy Objects in Quick­sil­ver, you can gain access to the Current Web Page object. After making sure that you have acti­vated the Open URL With... action in the Quick­sil­ver pref­er­ences you are free to spec­ify Fire­fox (or another browser).

Current Web Page → Open URL With... → Firefox

Once you have this work­ing, you can set it up as a custom trig­ger. I set mine to the F1 key. Even better, this trig­ger is much more extend­able than the script. You might not nec­es­sar­ily always want to open a URL in Fire­fox. Say you want to open a page in Opera. Just create another trig­ger, but leave out the item in the third pane.

Current Web Page → Open URL With... → "Leave this blank"

Now when you use that trig­ger, acti­vate it with a hotkey (I used F2) and type in the first few let­ters of the browser (or pro­gram) you want the URL to open in.