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Open any URL from any app with Butler and AppleScript
Authored by: jonn8n on Thu, Jun 7 2007 at 10:06AM PDT

Can we please stop using AppleScripts to open web URLs that target specific browsers? Simply use the "open location" command and the URL will be opened in the default browser:

set the_url to "http://www.apple.com"
open location the_url

This command has been available for years and it also works for non-web URLs. For instance:

set the_url to "mailto:steve@apple.com"
open location the_url

set the_url to "file:///Applications/"
open location the_url

Jon