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Is there a plugin or a bookmarklet for Chrome which opens the current page in Firefox?

Update:

Thanks Phoshi for the suggestion. Here is my AutoHotKey script (not messing with the clipboard...):

#IfWinActive ahk_class Chrome_WindowImpl_0
^+f:: ;Ctrl+Shift+F
ControlGetText, URLbartxt, Chrome_AutocompleteEditView1
RegExMatch(URLbartxt,"^((ht|f)tps?|file)://\S+$",URL)
if URL <> 
   {
   Run "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta\firefox.exe" %URL%
   }
return
#IfWinActive

But I'm still looking for a Chrome embedded solution...

Gareth
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fluxtendu
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Try this:

#IfWinActive [Chrome's window ID, I'll explain later]
!f:: ;Alt-F
MyClip := ClipboardAll
Send !d
Send ^c
Run P:\ath\to\firefox.exe %Clipboard%
Clipboard := MyClip
MyClip = 
return
#IfWinActive

That's an Autohotkey script, which would mean you had to install autohotkey, but if you don't want to do that, I can convert it into a standalone .exe.

In either case, the two things that need to be changed are the P:\ath to firefox, and Chrome's ID. I don't have chrome installed, but the Window Spy that comes with AHK can get the ID of a window, so that would do. Then, once you'd stuck this script in a text file with the extension.ahk and run it, would have Alt-F as a "firefox" key, which would quickly copy the current tab URL in GChrome, open that in FF, and return your clipboard to it's old self. AHK is very light (My 1000-liner is taking 10mb of RAM right now (To be fair, it IS running a few extra clipboards, so I don't know how much of that RAM is that), but my 15 line "Gaming Essentials" takes up something in the few kbs), so won't impact performance at all. You could also do a GChrome button, to take FF back to GChrome, but I don't know if chrome accepts the same command line arguments. If you need any help setting it up, I'm always happy to help :)

Phoshi
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A very simple method:

In Chrome, drag the star (Address bar) to (already open) Firefox and it will open in Firefox.

It works both ways: drag the Firefox Address bar icon to Chrome.

harrymc
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You can drag Chrome tabs into Firefox tab bar and it will open up in FF. Not exactly what your looking for but it might work.

alpha1
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I had been using the Autohotkey solution until Chrome changed the way URLs are displayed in the latest dev version, omitting the http(s)://.

Modified code to run in the latest dev, with a new keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Menu Key to avoid conflict with some other program's global shortcut:

#IfWinActive ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0
^+AppsKey:: ;Ctrl+Shift+F
ControlGetText, URLbartxt, Chrome_AutocompleteEditView1
RegExMatch(URLbartxt,"^((ht|f)tps?|file)://\S+$",URL)
Run "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %URLbartxt%
if URL <> 
   {
   ;New Chrome versions do not display http:// in omnibar :(
   ;Run "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %URL%

   }
return
#IfWinActive
Gareth
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vstg005
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2

Using the top rated solution, I had to modify the script as shown below to work on my machine (and I prefer Win+Z key combination)

Thanks to everyone who built this solution, it works great!

#IfWinActive ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0
#z::
ControlGetText, URLbartxt, Chrome_AutocompleteEditView1
RegExMatch(URLbartxt,"^((ht|f)tps?|file)://\S+$",URL)
if URL <> 
   {
   Run "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %URL%
   }
return
#IfWinActive
antidiscombobulator
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The code below works for me.

No need for regular expressions, changed to "Chrome_OminiboxView1", and not confirm if URLbartxt is a valid URL.

Probably this is sufficient for most people. If this code stops working, check the adress bar with your Window Spy.

#z::
 IfWinActive ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0
ControlGetText, URLbartxt, Chrome_OmniboxView1
   Run "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %URLbartxt%
return
soandos
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tyorome
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1

If you are using OSX, you may want to check out the latest version of Choosy

Josh Newman
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There is a Chrome extension for this, but it only works in OS X:

Open with Other Apps

endolith
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There's also the "Mozilla Gecko Tab" extension for Chrome, it includes a context menu entry named "Open in Installed Firefox" By the way, I had to replace the class of Google Chrome into my old .ahk script with the new one (newer Chrome I think): Chrome_WidgetWin_0 --> Chrome_WidgetWin_1

#IfWinActive ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1
^+f:: ;Ctrl+Shift+F
ControlGetText, URLtxt, Chrome_OmniboxView1
RegExMatch(URLtxt,"^((ht|f)tps?|file)://\S+$",URL)
Run "D:\Apps\Internet\Browsers\Mozilla\Firefox\firefox.exe" %URLtxt%
return

The script Homepage is here (newer version of the script) thanks to Neil Popson.

ProgramFOX
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atgr24869
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This kind of answer needs constant updates that I cannot guarantee, because a lot of apps appear and disappear, but at the present (2014) there is a Chrome Webstore app for this: Open with external application.

Both the text you get in context menu and the external program to use are editable.

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Just a note: On my system (windows 7, Chrome 35.0.1916.114 m, Firefox 29.0.1) you have to use

-new-tab [LINK_URL]

or

-new-window [LINK_URL]

in the Executable parameters, otherwise only a blank firefox tab appears.

Patamunzo
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