Comments on: Quickly email a link from Safari

By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Moving around Mail.app using the keyboard

Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Moving around Mail.app using the keyboard — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:14:50 +0000

[...] Like the keyboard shortcut for emailing a URL in Safari, this is another tip that may not be as well-known as it should be. A number of people emailed to say that they would like to see more “basic tips” on Hawk Wings, so I’m going to town on this one. Power users turn away now…. [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:53:23 +0000

Excellent tip, Gibbons!

By: Gibbons Burke

Gibbons Burke — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:52:27 +0000

You can create a Bookmarks Bar shortcut if you need a button for this function by dragging any old URL to the Bookmarks Bar as a seed, then go to the Bookmarks view and change the URL of the newly-added bookmark to the following javascript:

javascript:location.href=’mailto:?SUBJECT=’+document.title+%20′&BODY=’+document.title+’%5Cn%3C’+escape(location.href)+’%3E’

I named the bookmark ‘m’ (for “mail this link”)so that it doesn’t take a lot of space on the bookmarks bar.

By: Mactivist

Mactivist — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:42:33 +0000

The tip omits one vital detail: it’s a tip for Safari, and not Firefox or other browser. (There’s a mention of Safari at the end, but no mention up front, where the tip itself lies.)

Apple, be sure future tips are clear on all the details!

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:12:45 +0000

That extension does the trick - once added and Firefox restarted, the right button shows up. Thanks much.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:04:48 +0000

Scott, the toolbar button adds the current URL for me, but I think I might use using the “Send Link” Extension

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:06:02 +0000

This is one area where FIrefox is weak (unless there is an extension I don’t know about). The button for the toolbar only seems to open mail - it doesn’ do anything. The shortcut Command-shift-M opens a new message, but doesn’t add the link. I suppose I should attempt some applescript or something, but its easier just to highlight it to Tim!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:42:19 +0000

FWIW, Omniweb has had a “Send Link” button for donkey’s (at least since version 5.0, if not earlier). Add it to your navigation toolbar by customising it. Alternatively, just select Send Link from the File menu. No bookmarklet required.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:08:54 +0000

Is this Tiger only? I’m on Panther - doesn’t appear to work for me.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:52:39 +0000

@mandaris - Sure. I didn’t mention it as I know of a lot of people who don’t like to get a barrow-load of HTML in their inboxes.

@Marshall - Why would you want to use any other mail client? :)