Can you launch Tor Browser by its id?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1 
tell application id "org.mozilla.tor browser" to launch

used to work (actually it launches Firefox and sometimes it’s hidden) but now only

tell application ":Applications:Tor Browser.app" to launch

seems to do.

I could also use open, I guess

do shell script "open -a 'Tor Browser'"

Are there any other workarounds for pesky applications such this?

#2

Hello.

I think you have covered the bases pretty well, but maybe the last resort is to execute the binary that resides inside “Applications/AppFolder/Contents/MacOs”, this can be interesting if you want to pass parameters to the executable during startup.

#3

Another syntax


launch application (path to application "Tor Browser" as text)
#4 
path to current application as text
		--> error number -1708

which is, an Apple Event was not handled by any handler. What does it mean in this context?

#5

current application represents the current AppleScript environment, not the frontmost application

#6

Does anyone know why this doesn’t work?

tell application id "org.mozilla.tor browser" to launch

Shouldn’t it be like double-clicking the application bundle in Finder?

#7

run this to check if the bundle identifier is spelled correctly


set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, return}
tell application "System Events"
	set mozillaProcesses to (get name of processes whose name contains "mozilla") as text
end tell
set text item delimiters to TID
display dialog mozillaProcesses
#8

It sees nothing

tell application "System Events"
	get name of every process whose name contains "mozilla"
		--> {}
end tell
tell application "AppleScript Editor"
	display dialog ""
		--> {button returned:"OK"}
end tell
Result:
{button returned:"OK"}

Anyway, the Info.plist states

#9

I think stefan meant:

set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, return}
tell application "System Events"
	set mozillaProcesses to (get bundle identifier of processes whose bundle identifier contains "mozilla") as text
end tell
set text item delimiters to TID
display dialog mozillaProcesses
#10

I guess the space character in the bundle identifier causes the problem

#11

Yes, of course :wink:

#12

That was my first guess, too. But quoted or escaped it should work.

tell application "System Events"
	get bundle identifier of every process whose bundle identifier contains "mozilla"
		--> {"org.mozilla.tor browser"}
end tell
tell application "AppleScript Editor"
	display dialog "org.mozilla.tor browser"
		--> {button returned:"OK"}
#13

(Sigh)

#14

The problem is that Mozilla does not conform to the bundle identifier naming convention

From the documentation:
The bundle ID string must be a uniform type identifier (UTI) that contains only alphanumeric (A-Z,a-z,0-9), hyphen (-), and period (.) characters. The string should also be in reverse-DNS format.

Does the path-to-application solution not work?

#15

Thanks for the doc reference.

Path-to-application is nice, but it’s very slow. In Script Debugger

tell application (path to application "Tor Browser" as text) to launch

takes ±2.15"

tell application "Tor Browser" to launch

takes ±0.09"