Launch System Preferences and click on the Keyboard icon in the list of preference panes. Once in the Keyboard pane, click on the Shortcuts button at the top.
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Click on the Services icon in the left-hand column, and then scroll down to the Searching section. Enable Search With Google and Spotlight with a click on the checkbox next to each label. The default shortcut for searching the web with Google (this will change if you choose a different default search engine in Safari preferences) is Shift-Command-L, and the shortcut for Spotlight is Shift-Command-F. These shortcuts will work system wide, even in something as odd as iTunes. You can click on any track in your music library and then hit Shift-Command-L to have Google search for information about the track. You can also search any text item you can highlight. Simply double click on the text you want to search for, and hit Shift-Command-L.
Google will end support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Your Mac will launch Safari and take you to the Google search page. Spotlight searching works much the same way, though you may want to change the default to something else, as Command-Shift-F will make some apps like Chrome go fullscreen. I added an Option keystroke to my shortcut, making it Command-Shift-Option-F, so as to not conflict with the fullscreen command in Chrome. Now I can highlight any word or string of words, hit Command-Shift-Option-F and a Spotlight window appears with that search term pre-filled into the search field.
It’s very convenient.
1:30 Google has touted its Chrome browser as all you need for desktop computing on any operating system. But the search giant said in a blog post Friday that it will gradually be phasing out the browser's apps for Windows, Mac and Linux machines. The apps range from photo-editing program to games like a now-discontinued version of. You download them from the, launch them from the Chrome browser and they open in a separate window, as if they were a program installed on your hard drive. You're not alone.
Google said in that few people who use Chrome on Mac, Windows and Linux machines also use the apps. The wind-down will be gradual, with apps published in late 2016 being available only to those using a Chrome OS machine. Existing apps will remain available for a bit on all platforms, and developers will be able to keep them updated. The Chrome Web Store will stop showing Chrome apps for Windows, Mac and Linux machines in the second half of 2017, and the apps will stop loading entirely by early 2018. The timeline will hopefully let app developers come up with alternatives for their programs before the 2018 shutdown.