serioustiger

Thanks for the quick response Vitor. Update testing some of your ideas... What is actually happening is that if Chrome is not already running, triggering a web search from Alfred is launching two instances of Chrome. It launches Chrome with the correctly-triggered search first, and then immediately launches a second instance of Chrome straight over the top, with the default home page. This happens so fast that I hadn't spotted it at first - and it is actually a new instance of Chrome, i.e. a new window, not a second tab in the same window. This doesn't happen if Chrome is already running, it just opens a new tab as it should with the correct search. Note that I (and my wife) do have our browsers set to trigger new links to open in new tabs not new windows, so theoretically Chrome should never launch a second window. I set my default browser to the latest version of Chrome on another Macbook and am finding the same issue. I disabled ALL extensions so I don't think it's that. And now that I check - yes, this is happening with other Alfred searches as well. Pretty much anything that launches a URL into Chrome - whether it's "Maps" as above, or a Searchio! search (any search, not just a Searchio! m search), or even just a random web search like "Apple Insider" (tested using both Google and DuckDuckGo). Obviously a simple ⌘+W will remove the offending second window, but still a minor irritation since it's every search where Chrome is not already running. If no one else is experiencing this issue then I guess if it's not Chrome extensions it may be something else I have installed during setup...I certainly think it's possible that there is something that I install on macs as standard setup, that I would also have added to my wife's configuration. A screenie of the installed apps is here. By the way - thanks for the tip on Searchio! - that is AMAZING and I am going to use it (with Safari!) on my other macs. Thanks again!

Hi I'm setting up a new Macbook for my wife, who prefers to use Chrome as her default browser. Using the Alfred command "Maps" to search google maps works fine if Chrome is already running; however, if Chrome is not running, then Chrome will launch and open a new tab, but to the default home page, not the Maps search. I don't have this problem on any of my other macs, which use Safari as the default browser. TIA for any suggestions! What you were doing when the issue happened - attempting to use Maps to search Google Maps when Chrome was not already running; Chrome launches and opens a new tab but with the default home page not the maps search Whether you were able to replicate it a second time by performing the same action - yes, every time Chrome is closed the problem replicates on next maps search Include any screenshots that might help us - not sure what would be helpful here, hopefully the description describes the issue adequately Include the Alfred version & build number you are using - 2.82 (432) Include your OS X version - 10.11.3 Chrome version - 48.0.2564.116 (64-bit)

Guys - sorry for the satellite delay, have been travelling this week. This solution worked - because I didn't really have a choice, I started opening the file through Finder (Pathfinder actually) and now it is showing second on my Alfred list. A short while before it's number 1, I think. Thanks!

Hi - I'm sure there's a really simple answer but this is driving me nuts. I'm trying to return a specific file containing the word "quota" in the filename. Unfortunately I have many files with the word "quota" in the filename, and using that search string does not return the one I want in the default 20 results. This is one master "quota" file that I use all the time, and is the only one I would ever want Alfred to quick launch, but unfortunately the search results are spammed full of other "quota" files that I need to keep but rarely use. How do I "force" this one file to show up in the results? When I search "quota" I do actually see the folder in which the file resides, and I can open the folder and then open the file - but I want to go straight to the file. If Alfred learns from past behaviour, how does it do that? It apparently can't see that every time I use this search, I go into the same folder and open the same file, which is really what I would like it to learn. It also apparently doesn't look at simply how often I use the file, because it would be number 1 result for sure. By the way, I also tried raising the number of search results to the maximum of 40 in "result limit" but that seems to have no effect - I still only get 20 results - presume this is a bug? Thanks for any help you guys can provide! Kind regards ~Guy.

Top work, Stuart. I only came here looking for a way to change the default location for maps search, and this fixes that as well as doing so much more :-)