Comments on: Leopard 10.5.0 problem spots

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:14:13 +0000

Thanks, Lazeez. I ended up doing something similar by creating an applet that scans the target folder and runs my desired applescript if anything is found. I set them to launch when the user logs in, so it works pretty well.

I’ll check into “Lingon” also. It sounds like that’ll be a good tool for the tool box.

I’d cross my fingers and toes to have this problem fixed. What a pain.

By: Lazeez

Lazeez — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:23:09 +0000

Yes, there is a workaround for the problem.

First save the AppleScript as an Application.

Second, use the program ‘Lingon’ to create a user launchd event that runs the script (saved as application) whenever the watched folder is modified.
Log out and log back in and it should work.

The launchd event works better than folder actions.

Although, crossing fingers, the soon-to-be-released update 10.5.3 would fix the problem.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:25:39 +0000

I’ve come across the folder action glitch also. Is there any way around this?

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:15:39 +0000

I’ve been using Camino (Mozilla associated) for my web browsing for years and tend to prefer it.

http://caminobrowser.org/

By: Kasper

Kasper — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:58:33 +0000

My Safari crashes almost every day… What the heck is going on? Was much more stable in earlier versions of 10.4.x. I’m getting very very tired of this…

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:59:13 +0000

I also get more browser crashes in Safari–many more, and the same thing is happening with Firefox.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:18:49 +0000

I had the same “web clips” problem, but a Google search turned up this discussion, the proposed solution in which worked for me. Your results may vary.

http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/352114/web-clips-explain-em-me-like/

By: has

has — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:28:47 +0000

“The kicker is that Safari doesnâ€™t seem to respond to â€˜make new windowâ€™ command.”

While Safari’s new tab elements are very welcome, its scripting support remains somewhat illogical/inconsistent/inadequate in other respects. For now you need to ask it to create a new document:

tell application "Safari" to make new document with properties {URL:"http://bugreport.apple.com"}

HTH

has
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