Comments on: AppleScript is broken in Firefox 3

By: luis

luis — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:58:50 +0000

Al: I wouldn’t recommend SeaMonkey to anyone, especially not over Safari. However, if that combination works for you, then use that. But could I interest you in a Safari + WebnoteHappy combination instead? :)

Andy: Its still going through patch approval and has been included in the trunk. I hope it will make it through soon.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:45:12 +0000

Any progress on getting this fix pushed out? I was going to try Firefox 3, but without a fully functional WebnoteHappy it’s dead to me.

By: Al Maloney

Al Maloney — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:27:26 +0000

I use Mac OS X 10.5.4, 2008061004 Firefox 3, and URL Manager Pro 3.5b11.
URL Manager Pro does not work with Firefox3.
It does work with SeaMonkey 1.1.10.

I am considering switching.
Is SeaMonkey preferable to Safari?

Thanks
Al Maloney

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:19:30 +0000

100% behind you, man! I hate telling my users “Oh no, you can only do that in Safari.” time and time again, especially when there are so many other things where I have to tell them “Oh, no, you can only do that in Firefox”. Mac users need to keep open like 3 browsers (1 in a virtual machine!) at all times just to go about their business… this would help eliminate at least one of them.

By: Rob Terrell

Rob Terrell — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:32:07 +0000

Way to go, Louie!

By: tc

tc — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:41:51 +0000

Lots of Mac-isms are broken in FF. The Services menu is completely dead. The metal area of the window can’t be dragged. The standard text-editing keyboard shortcuts don’t all work.

I suppose on some theoretical level I can appreciate that it’s a shame that Applescript doesn’t work, but if I had to make a list of “Most Important Mac Integration Points that Firefox Misses”, Applescript would be solidly in about 17th place.

By: Darren Mahaffy

Darren Mahaffy — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:43:56 +0000

I’m cheering you on, too. A huge thanks for picking this up! I’m optimistic things will be addressed now. Just hope it is timely. And btw, the Mozilla forums link you posted is mine, too… :-)

As I state in my latest blog post I’ve switched over to Safari for my daily work even though I’ve found a FF3 work-around using the excellent Copy URL + along with gui-scripting. It just isn’t an elegant solution, and I don’t want to rely on a plug-in when it should be built in to the app architecture to begin with.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:03:57 +0000

Consider yourself cheered on. We have a widget for ma.gnolia.com that relies on being able to grab title and description.

By: Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:55:11 +0000

Great stuff, Luis. I weighted in on the bug with some comments about your patch.

I really hope this gets fixed either in rc2 or in 3.0.1!