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Re: Timeout Not Working As Expected


  • Subject: Re: Timeout Not Working As Expected
  • From: DaveC <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:58:25 -0700

Don’t know precisely an answer but this link seems to suggest that Safari is having issues responding to certain Applescript commands:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2892622/open-url-in-new-safari-tab-with-applescript

Hope it helps…

Dave

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> Note it has nothing to do with the specific site.  This hangs as well:
>
> with timeout of 5 seconds
> 	do shell script "/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin www.yahoo.com"
> end timeout
>
> Basically, control doesn't return to the script until Firefox quits.

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