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  • Subject: how to get new urls to open in a different page
  • From: "Ken G. Brown" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:18:39 -0600

Title: how to get new urls to open in a different page
I am using the following script to open a set of www sites in tabs on a single Safari page.

-- an applescript program that opens a list of urls in separate tabs.
set urlList to {"http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl", "http://www.apple.com", "http://www.macfixit.com"}
set numURLs to (count urlList)

tell application "Safari"
make new document with properties {URL:(item 1 of urlList)}
    
set this_win to (window 1)
     
repeat with jj from 2 to numURLs
               
tell this_win
                  
make new tab with properties {URL:(item jj of urlList)}
       
end tell
       
end repeat
end tell
Works pretty nicely except I'm finding that once I execute this script, Safari always wants to open any new links from my email program as a new tab on this same page, even though I have subsequently opened a new page in Safari and have it as the window in focus.

I have Safari preferences set to open links from other applications in a new tab on the current page which is what I want, but the current page always remains pointed to the one I opened with the script. It works correctly as long as I have not previously executed the script.

Problem is, then the page with all the tabs ends up pointing to a page I do not recognize as one on my multi-tabbed page, in the list of open windows and when I have a lot of open windows, it becomes a problem to find my wanted page. I use the script to open a list of stocks I am following and want to quickly get back to it often throughout the day.

Any ideas what needs to be done to fix this anomaly?

Thx for any tips.
Ken G. Brown
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