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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 652
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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 652


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 652
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 08:45:02 -0700

At 01:47 +0200 1/1/07, Nir Soffer wrote:
>On Dec 28, 2006, at 21:43, Craig Hoyt wrote:
>
>>In the above question (opening a URL in a browser) - if the user  chooses FireFox and FireFox does not exist on that computer a  dialog is presented requesting the user 'Find' the application. I  want to suppress this dialog. Is this possible? Try-End Try doesn't  seem to work. Is there a more direct way to suppress ANY and ALL  errors.
>
>The simplest way to solve this problem is using the open command line  tool, which can find applications by name.
>
>This will work:
>	do shell script "open -a Finder " & quoted form of "/Users/Shared"

That's correct, but. . .

open -a Firefox http://www.macnauchtan.com

on my G4 running 10.3.9 results in opening of the website using Safari. It seems that open, when the target is a URL rather than a filename, doesn't understand the -a option and uses the default browser. No errors are reported.
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