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I have Safari open with 111 tabs open.
I clicked on a URL that a friend sent me on Skype.
Safari opened the link in a random tab that wasn't selected, and was neither the first or the last one on the left or right.
The URL that I clicked replaced this tab's content, it was not a new tab.
How was this random tab selected out of the 111 tabs, to be the recipient of the URL I clicked?
Follow these steps to fix safari issue
Here is an AppleScript that should help you. Open AppleScript Editor and save this as a script. I have modified the source that I found here to support taking arguments on the command line.
Use it like this:
osascript new_window.scpt http://www.google.com http://www.stackoverflow.com
Of course, replace the URLs above with your own URLs.
on run argv
tell application "Safari"
if (count argv) = 0 then
-- If you dont want to open a new window for an empty list, replace the
-- following line with just "return"
set {first_url, rest_urls} to {"", {}}
else
-- `item 1 of ...` gets the first item of a list, `rest of ...` gets
-- everything after the first item of a list. We treat the two
-- differently because the first item must be placed in a new window, but
-- everything else must be placed in a new tab.
set {first_url, rest_urls} to {item 1 of argv, the rest of argv}
end if
make new document at end of documents with properties {URL:first_url}
tell window 1
repeat with the_url in rest_urls
make new tab at end of tabs with properties {URL:the_url}
end repeat
end tell
activate
end tell
end run
You could even create an alias for this in Terminal and be able to use it easier. I would add the following to ~/.bash_profile:
alias newwindow='osascript /path/to/new_window.scpt'
Call newwindow whatever you want. Save .bash_profile and restart Terminal for it to work.
In case anyone is looking for a similar solution for Google Chrome, here is a different take on the same idea.
on run argv
tell application "Google Chrome"
if (count argv) = 0 then
make new window
else
tell (make new window)
set URL of active tab to item 1 of argv
repeat with the_url in the rest of argv
open location the_url
end repeat
end tell
end if
set active tab index of first window to 1
activate
end tell
end run
Best Answer
It's usually not a random tab but the current active tab. But with 111 tabs open, I'm surprised the app's memory is not hosed so much that it's making mistakes now. That count seems a bit high. Try to reduce the tab count--after restarting Safari--and check the behavior then.