I don't have Chrome, but I can confirm that the Open action continues to 
work as it always has when to switch between, e.g., Safari and Mail on OS X 
10.9.

On Friday, January 24, 2014 9:23:10 AM UTC-5, Rob McBroom wrote:
>
> On 23 Jan 2014, at 22:40, Joel M. Guenther wrote:
>
> Previously, when I used a Trigger to send the Open command to switch to an
> application that was already open, the application would Activate and its
> frontmost window would receive Focus. I suspect this behavior was
> essentially the same as the "shows the front window" option for "Reopening
> the current application" in the Extras section of the Quicksilver
> Preferences.
>
> I had always believed that setting controlled the behavior of the Open 
> action. Looking at the code, I see that’s not the case. In fact, I don’t 
> think that setting is ever used in practice. (It appears once in the code, 
> but that code seems to be unused.)
>
> Now that I am running Mavericks, using a Trigger to Open an application
> that is already running brings all the windows for that application to the
> front. This is functionally equivalent to using command-tab to switch to an
> application, and this change in behavior has crippled my workflows.
>
> On my system (10.9.1), the Open action does what you want. It only brings 
> the focused window to the front. But to be sure, I tried it with Chrome 
> specifically and it’s bringing all windows forward.
>
> This sort of crap is typical of cross-platform applications where standard 
> OS X behavior is an afterthought at best. If you report the problem to 
> Google, just tell them that -[NSWorkspace openFile:@"/Applications/Google 
> Chrome.app"] is what triggers the undesired behavior.
>
> -- 
> Rob McBroom
> http://www.skurfer.com/
>

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