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Display Webpages in Tabs
Function: Displays webpages in Safari, using multiple tabs if the user has enabled this option.
Author: Eric Blair
Notes: To see webpages appear in tabs, you must enabled tabbed browsing in Safari and select “in a new tab in the current window” option for opening links from applications.
Input: (URLs) URL addresses passed in from a previous action.
Result: (Safari documents)
Related Actions: Get Specified URLs, Display Webpages
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[...] opens webpages in seperate browser windows, so that was less than ideal. However, by installing the Display Webpages as Tabs action for Automator by Eric Blair, and using it in place of Display Webpages, you can create a workflow [...]
Pingback by Stray Dog Strut » Blog Archive » Opening multiple tabbed homepages in Safari — September 5, 2009 @ 9:02 am
Hi, I am trying to use automator to keep refreshing a web page and highlight any changes to the text. How do I do that? Thanks, David
Comment by David — July 7, 2009 @ 8:01 pm
Eric – I just testing this out with a simple workflow and it appears to be working fine in Safari 3.0.4 / Tiger 10.4.11. What problem are you seeing and what does your workflow look like?
Comment by Eric Blair — December 13, 2007 @ 2:37 am
does not work for me with Safari 3.0.4 on Tiger 10.4.11 – any chance it needs an update?
Comment by Eric Blanding — December 12, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
Excellent. I especially love that it can append the tabs after those already open instead of starting with an empty window…now if only I could figure out how to get Safari to do that when I right-click a folder of bookmarks and ask it to “Open in Tabs”!
Comment by Joy — June 30, 2007 @ 12:00 am