This is simpler: if you have a folder of bookmarks (I have one
called "News" that contains eight sites) on your Bookmarks
Bar, you can open them all at once in tabs in the current
window by selecting "Open in Tabs" at the bottom of the list.
No scripting necessary!

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Right, but the script will open Safari with those tabs already revealed. Saves a Command-click on the shortcut bar, basically ;-). Or lets you open a set of pages that you don't have in your bookmarks bar...

-rob.

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Actually, if you already have a folder of bookmarks you CAN get
them all loaded on startup by using the following script:

tell application "Safari" to activate

tell application "System Events"

click button "Startup" of window 1 of application process
"Safari"

end tell

where "Startup" is the name of the folder in the BookMark Bar.
The above script requires installation of UI Scripting Beta.

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For some reason, whenever I try to run an applescript, it always seems to come up with a dialogue box saying either

"Expected end of line, etc, but found identifier"

or

"expected expression, property or key form, etc, but found uknown token"

and then when i want to save it says

"the script file 'untitled' wouldn't compile; you won't be able to save it in compiled form, only as text"

Does anyone know why this is happening/ I have never really used applescript before, and am very much a beginner

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But what if you have sub folders in a bookmark bar folder? If
you nav to the sub folder there is no "open in tabs", and
command clicking doesn't work. I can't even open one bookmark
in a new tab if it is in a sub folder.

Andy

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a workaround: organize your bookmarks however you like, but duplicate the ones you want to auto-open in a folder that only exists for that purpose.

best,
M.

---
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. - Thomas Jefferson to Col. C. Yancey, 1816

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QUOTE from above:

"http://www.XXXXXXX.com"

Be carefull. =)

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Where does Safari store the home page info at? It isn't in the
com.apple.Safari.plist file in Preferences. If you knew where the
home page info was stored, it could probably be editted there to
open multiple tabs on launch.

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~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconfig.plist

This is where the information is accessed from.

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I noticed after submitting this hint that Safari can not be open for this script. I will play around and see if I can set up an "if" and "then" in the script.

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Good work! Here's a version using a repeat loop iterating a list of URLs:

set the URL_list to {"http://www.apple.com/applescript/
", 
"http://www.apple.com/macosx/", "http://www.apple.com/
itunes/", "http://www.apple.com/iphoto/", "http://
www.apple.com/safari/"}

tell application "Safari"
	activate
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in URL_list
		set this_URL to item i of URL_list
		my new_tab()
		set the URL of document 1 to this_URL
	end repeat
end tell

on new_tab()
	tell application "Safari" to activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Safari"
			click menu item "New Tab" of ¬
				menu "File" of menu bar 1
		end tell
	end tell
end new_tab

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I was fiddling around with applescript and came up with this way
of doing the same sort of thing:

set the URL_list to {"http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/", "http://
slashdot.org/", "http://apple.slashdot.org/", "http://
www.gallup.com/poll/", "http://news.com.com/", "http://
www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.asp", "http://
www.macsurfer.com/", "http://www.macosxhints.com/", "http:/
/www.versiontracker.com/macosx/", "http://www.spymac.com/
", "http://www.memepool.com/", "http://news.google.com/"}

tell application "Finder"
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in URL_list
set this_URL to item i of URL_list
open location this_URL
end repeat
end tell

This applescript will open a list of URL's in a single window in
Safari under tabs. Very useful for checking out the sites you
read every day. To edit, drag the strip into the Script Editor. To
change the URL's just boot up applescript editor and change the
information in the quotation marks. You can add or take
away, the number doesn't matter.

To make this work:

(under internet options under system preferences) Make Safari
your default browser... (under general preferences in Safari)
Block pop up windows, select "in the current window" for open
links from applications [this will only alter the behavior of
safari]. Enable Tabbed browsing under tabs.

This is my first applescript. It's kinda fun.

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All of these tab tricks do not work in latest Panther 10.3.1

Try this instead:

tell application "Safari"
activate

my new_tab()
set the URL of document 1 to "http://news.google.com/news/en/us/technology.html"
my new_tab()
set the URL of document 1 to "http://news.com.com/"
my new_tab()
set the URL of document 1 to "http://maccentral.macworld.com/"
my new_tab()
set the URL of document 1 to "http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/"

end tell

on new_tab()

delay 1
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Safari"
keystroke "t" using command down
end tell
end tell

end new_tab

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Is there a way to automate this so it acts every time Safari opens? I'm completely new to AppleScript, but Firefox is giving me horrid font rendering issues that won't resolve easily, so I'd like Safari to perform at least some of the basic things Firefox does.

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Maybe try using an Automator workflow, or save a copy of the script as an application? You could keep it in the dock or call it from an app launcher and it'll open all the links every time you click on it. (Unless Safari can be set to allow multiple home pages, but so far editing the .plist hasn't worked here.)

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