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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](http://raoli.com/)
**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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Comment by tony — June 23, 2006 @ 3:24 pm
Brilliant – my first visit to this site, and this is the first script I’ve downloaded, solved a huge problem I was having. Thanks!
Comment by Darren Cornwell — June 27, 2006 @ 5:13 am
That must be for the Safari in Leopard?
Comment by WillGonz — September 8, 2006 @ 6:54 pm
No Will, this is for Tiger. Are you having some sort of trouble getting the action to work? Have you enabled GUI scripting?
Comment by Eric Blair — September 10, 2006 @ 11:04 pm
why is it when i run the script it opens up my pages in seperate window instead of in tabs??
Comment by john — May 21, 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
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
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
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
[…] 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 […]
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