bitnugget Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Is there a way to toggle a web search to open in the background only, without changing the active tab? I often do a bunch of web searches at once, but it's inconvenient when the browser changes away from the page I am looking at. Link to comment
jdfwarrior Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Is there a way to toggle a web search to open in the background only, without changing the active tab? I often do a bunch of web searches at once, but it's inconvenient when the browser changes away from the page I am looking at. This is handled by the browser and not by Alfred. Alfred perform the equivalent of you typing: open http://alfredapp.com at a terminal. If you browser is configured to open links in a new tab, thats what opening URLs in Alfred does. If it's configured to open them in a new window, thats what will happen. Link to comment
Andrew Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 This could likely be achieved with some AppleScript and a little workflow - it might be worth asking a more specific question in the workflow help sub-forum Link to comment
bitnugget Posted March 14, 2014 Author Share Posted March 14, 2014 (edited) It's been a while… Almost a year since I first asked this. I recently started learning AppleScript and put this together. I thought I'd share what I made: on alfred_script(q) tell application id "com.google.Chrome" tell window 1 set tab_position to get active tab index tell (make new tab) set URL to ("https://www.google.ca/search?q=" & q) end tell set active tab index to tab_position end tell end tell end alfred_script edit: Sorry if this is not in the right sub-forum… Edited March 14, 2014 by sgtkabukiman Link to comment
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