A handy Safari keyboard shortcut for Google searches

Here I go again, professing my love for keyboard shortcuts. I have shortcuts and hotkeys for just about everything I do on a daily basis. I’m running out of intuitive combinations, actually, but my muscle memory seems to have room for a few more. There’s one shortcut, though, that I think every Safari user — keyboard-obsessed or not — really should know about.

If you have a Mac, and forgive my bold assumption that you do, you already have your own copy of Safari’s lesser-known keyboard shortcuts on your drive. It’s buried inside of the Safari application bundle, but you can reach it directly from a Web browser (Safari or not) at file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Shortcuts.html. Clicking that link should take you directly there, if you have a current version of Safari. The particular keyboard shortcut I’m referring to is Command-Option-S, the shortcut for Search Results SnapBack.

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