open link from chrome to firefox?

Question

I've got two browsers open, chrome and firefox, and would like to have a shortcut to be able to open a link I have in chrome as a new tab in my firefox window. Right now I do this by clicking 'Copy link address' in Chrome and pasting the URL into firefox, but I would like to have a shortcut defined to do this. Is this doable?

Solution

Have you considered just dragging the link? I use both browsers at the same time (each on it's own screen). I find myself mostly using Chrome for gmail etc.. and will get links via email. I just click and drag from Chrome to the Firefox tab bar and the page will open in a new tab. It works in the other direction too (Firefox to Chrome). One needn't limit this to email... basically any link on any page will work via this method.

Comments

[Admin]

Chrome used to have an extension called "Open with external application" that did exactly what you want. I still have it installed on my version of Chrome (37.something), but it's no longer available from Chrome/Google. Exporting this hasn't worked, and simply copying the extension folder to a new location hasn't worked either. Maybe someone has seen this old extension archived somewhere.

[Knowledge Cube]

I can confirm this works. However, a possible limitation: what if the OP has both browsers open fullscreen?

[Sanam Patel]

What a cool tip, never occurred to me to try that.