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Global keyboard shortcut to open a tab in Chrome on Mac OS X

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What is the best way to configure a global keyboard shortcut to open a tab in Chrome on Mac OS X? Caveats It should be as simple as possible, so I don't want to + every time. This must be global, so if I press my shortcut (which happens to be ) while I'm in Mail.app, it needs to bring Chrome to the…

Error Output

#!/usr/bin/osascript

tell application "Google Chrome Canary"
    activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Google Chrome…

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Fix for: Global keyboard shortcut to open a tab in Chrome on Mac OS X

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You can run the following Terminal command (e.g. in a bash script): This will cause the application Google Chrome to open the URL chrome://newtab, thereby opening a new tab. Unfortunately, Google Chrome doesn't register the URL type with Launch Serv…

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