save webpage as a url file and open with chrome

Question

How can I simply save a webpage in chrome as a text based url file that when clicked in finder opens the webpage in chrome?

Here is what I have so far found and tried: the following code:

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://http://stackoverflow.com/

(it needs an empty line at the end too but I couldn't get that shown in the code above). When saved as a .url file and kept simply in my filesystem, and click on it it opens the webpage directly in safari (since I am on a mac with osx). I want this to open in Chrome, but changing the "open with" settings opens the file as a text file; it doesn't execute and take me to that webpage.

Solution 1

I was in your exact same situation Geoff, and I was able to find this after digging through a ton of forums.

1. Open up Chrome/Firefox and go to the web page you were wanting to save.
2. Look at the address bar.
3. Find the padlock icon that is just to the left of your URL string. It may look like a page, or a lock, or a lock with a yellow triangle.
4. Click and drag it to the Desktop and then drop it.

This will create a webloc file, and for me it shows a Safari icon as the file image, even says Safari is the default program to open it. However, when I click on it, it always opens up in Chrome! :)

Hope this helps.

Using Chrome Version 29.0.1547.76

OSX 10.9.2

Solution 2

https://stackoverflow.com/a/22768604/10258377

Thank you @AZRckCrwler.

I would like to make it easier to understand base on his answer.

Find the padlock icon that is just to the left of your URL string. It may look like a page, or a lock, or a lock with a yellow triangle.

You can see the circle that I marked, then drag & drop here.

Comments

[Alexander Matrosov]

this is unexpected