set targetApp to (path to frontmost application as Unicode text)
tell application targetApp to activate
tell application “System Events”
tell process targetApp
keystroke “c” using {command down}
delay 1
end tell
end tell
set mytarget to “http://maps.google.com?q=” & (the clipboard)
(* display dialog “my target is ” & mytarget *)
tell application “Safari” to activate
tell application “System Events”
tell process “Safari”
open location (mytarget)
end tell
end tell

One of my favorite safari scripts is Red Sweater Software’s script to advance to the next page of search results. Fantastic! I also use fastscripts to assign keystrokes to scripts, and have assigned cmd+apostrophe to that script. I have assigned cmd+semi-colon to go to previous page across apps. (With all of the app-specific keystrokes, I try to maintain whatever cross-app keystrokes I can.)

You asked for plugin feedback. I use CoolIris constantly and was so glad when it became available for Safari.

But the idea of ClickToFlash is A+, just has some bugs to get worked out. Maybe I’ll try it again after a few updates.

ONE IMPROVEMENT THOUGH:

I know Safari’s “Top Sights” has gotten some iffy reception, atleast from what I’ve read, I think it’s sweet, but takes an incredibly long time to load the first time you use it, and sometimes there-after. It makes Safari look bad when a new Mac user tries Safari the first time – clicks on “Top Sights” and it just sits there with weird empty windows – even the preset “Top Sights” take forever to load. I helped my brother get his new MacBook Pro up, and when I saw this happening in Safari… it was embarrassing, really. I’m telling him how amazing everything is, and then this comes along.

BUT: to make it run a little quicker – just click “large” on the bottom right of the “Top Sights” page (after you click “edit” on the bottom left), it only has to load 4 top sights instead of like 30. Though after long term use – “Top Sights” gets a little quicker for some reason as it gets to know you – but for some reason as well, it has trouble opening Youtube – if you have a YouTube account, and it’s in your “Top Sights”, it very often is blank and just shows a white box in the middle of it, even if you sit a wait for a sec. The same with Google Maps too, I dunno, might just be a random thing. Great posting though, much thanks !

Safari has never crashed for me before – but after a friend sent me this page I loaded a bunch of them and now it crashes everytime I run safari for more than a few pages…. Anyone have a solution? Anyone know how to restore to before I added these apps or how to delete them?

In FIREFOX – you just have “add-ins” and they are easy to remove.

HELP….