Firefox Get URL not working?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Here’s my simple script:



set urllist to {"http://www.wired.com/", "http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/halle-berry-sexiest-woman-alive-2008/", "http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/polls/"}

repeat with thisurl in urllist
	set mydelay to 0.5
	tell application "Firefox"
		get URL thisurl
	end tell
end repeat

I keep getting this error message:

Firefox got an error: Can’t get URL “http://www.wired.com/”

When I open the dictionary there are 3 commands including Get URL but no info on them. Is FF no longer offering even basic AppleScript support?

#2

Same thing with Firefox 3.5.7 here. ‘Get URL’ doesn’t compile as a command in its own right, but as the language command ‘get’ followed by the property keyword ‘URL’.

#3

Nigel…

huh? :expressionless:

Could you Anglicize that a bit for me or better yet throw up an example…:slight_smile:

I can get open location “http://www.apple.com” to work

#4

Writing from the heart of England, I don’t see how it could be clearer. :wink:

Firefox’s dictionary lists a command called ‘Get URL’. When compiling your script on my machine, I’d expect the relevant section to look like this in my preferred AppleScript formatting colours:

tell application “Firefox”
Get URL thisurl
end tell

. where green is my preference for application keywords and red my preference for AppleScript language keywords. Instead it looks like this:

tell application “Firefox”
get URL thisurl
end tell

. which shows that the compiler isn’t finding the application keyword ‘Get URL’ in Firefox’s dictionary. It’s using the language keyword ‘get’ instead and getting the keyword ‘URL’ from somewhere else.

#5

I noticed that too and but didn’t have the grey matter to come to the conclusion, thanks for illustrating. +1 for England! :slight_smile:

#6

It has never :wink:

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#7

Not sure if this has been mentioned here or not, but I encountered this problem today and found there is a workaround. Credit goes to: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showpost.php?p=572047&postcount=5

openFirefoxURL("http://www.apple.com/")

on openFirefoxURL(x)
	return do shell script "open -a Firefox" & space & quoted form of x
end openFirefoxURL
#8

Any way to have the url’s open in tabs instead of new windows?

Thanks,

Carl

#9

Hi, Carl.

In the “Tabs” pane of Firefox’s Preferences (I’m looking at Firefox 3.6.3), check the “Open new windows in a new tab instead” option.

#10

Thanks Nigel. I see that works only if Firefox is already running. If it’s not it loads the url’s to new windows.

Carl