Caveat: Alfred 2.0.3: NSAppleScript actions: `open location` requires "System Events" context

[mklement0]

This may not be a bug, but it's worth noting:

 

When you use

open location

 

to open a URL from inside an NSAppleScript action, it must be in the tell application "System Events" context, otherwise it will fail silently (as of Alfred 2.0.3 on OS X 10.8.3).

 

For instance, to open URL "http://boston.com", you need to use the following:

 

tell application "System Events" to open location "http://boston.com"   # fails without `tell application "System Events" to`

 

Note:

If an action's sole purpose is to open a URL with the default handler, it is better to use the dedicated Open URL action type instead, which avoids this problem.

 

[Andrew]

Interesting Observation - I'm moving this to the Workflow Help section so others can benefit from it

[niels_bom]

Silently failing sucks so hard. I want 45 minutes of my life back Apple...

[deanishe]

Yeah, just don't use Run NSAppleScript unless you have a very good reason. Use the regular Run Script instead.