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Created March 23, 2011 14:34
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some AppleScript gists to open a new tab for web search
BEST (pops up a dialog to enter a search term and then opens that google search in a new tab in whatever browser is default):
activate
set gSearch to the text returned of (display dialog "Google:" default answer "")
set gSearch to "http://www.google.com/search?q=" & gSearch
tell application "System Events" to open location gSearch
Safari:
tell application "Safari"
tell front window to set current tab to make new tab
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events" to key code 3 using {command down, option down}
Chrome:
tell application "Google Chrome"
tell front window to make new tab
activate
end tell
Firefox:
tell application "System Events"
tell application "Firefox" to activate
keystroke "t" using command down
key code 3 using {command down, option down}
end tell
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