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15.04.2010 18:26:30

Make a behaviour for browser bookmarks navigation

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Hi, i need some help: i'd like / i need to find a way to add a beehaviour that can activate the Firefox Bookmarks menu.
I need to navigate bookmarks menu, select a bookmark and load it in firefox main page (or at least safari, but my default browser is FF).
Is it possible in some way? maybe it's only i'm not able to set up this kind of behaviour.
Thank you for your help

These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic:

Behaviours

The installed application XY, for which a behaviour exists, does not turn up in Remote Buddy's menu. What should I do? (FAQ015E0160)
There are several possible error sources:
- The application has been installed after Remote Buddy has already been launched
  For efficiency reasons, Remote Buddy only searches for supported applications when its started. If you have installed an application after launching Remote Buddy, please quit Remote Buddy and launch it anew.
- Oudated program versions
  The installed version of the program in question could be outdated and identify itself with a different Bundle Identifier than the version supported by Remote Buddy. This problem often occurs with Mplayer OS X. The most recent version of that application is not to be found on Sourceforge but on directly on the pages of Mplayer HQ.
- Custom menus
  If you use a custom menu in Remote Buddy and you don't make use of Remote Buddy's smart folders, the menu structure is static. You have to manually add the behaviour into a place of your choice in the menu.
- The behaviour is deactivated.
  Make sure, the checkbox in front of the Behaviour's name in the Mappings pane of the preferences is active.
- The Launch Services database is outdated.
  Remote Buddy uses Launch Services to check for the availability of an application on your Mac. If the Launch Services database of OS X is incomplete or outdated, so is Remote Buddy's dynamically created menu. The solution, though is easy. Download LSRefresh, launch it, select the application(s) that don't turn up in Remote Buddy's menu, wait until the update is finished and then restart Remote Buddy.

General

How do I navigate the Remote Buddy menu? (FAQ015E0170)
To navigate the menu, you can use the following button presses:
"Left" - up by one level in the menu
"Right" and "Play" - choose the current entry
"Left hold" - go to the main menu
"Plus" and "Minus" - scroll through the entries
"Menu hold" - jump to the first entry of the current menu
"Menu" - fade in/out the onscreen menu

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22.04.2010 09:28:46

Re: Make a behaviour for browser bookmarks navigation

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Thanks for asking.

I'm not sure this is easily possible. What could work is a combination of UI scripting and a dedicated Behaviour for just this purpose. Then, however, I'm not sure whether this is possible at all, because UI scripting requires an application to provide accessibility information - something FireFox doesn't do (although it's interface looks Mac-like, FireFox draws it all by itself).

If there are just a few sites you want to visit, it's probably a much better idea to create a custom action for each, using an AppleScript like this:

do shell script "open -a Firefox \"http://www.iospirit.com/\""

Be sure to check the "globally available" checkbox. You can then add these to the menu for FireFox at Prefs > Menu > FireFox by dragging it from Actions > FireFox > .. on the left.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

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