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Creating a sliding browser window in Firefox
Authored by: 31d1 on Jul 11, '06 08:00:14AM

A couple comments:
1) You no longer need to set screen size.
2) Attempts to get it to work with multiple windows didn't work out very well. The problem is this script is kind of delicate - something I found out yesterday is that firefox has a "hidden window" that is used for various things - and when I try to do anything fancy (it seems like) the script ends up controlling the hidden window and you have to restart firefox to get things back to normal. What I have here works well and considering the poor applescript support I'm surprised I got even this far.
3) This script also doesn't play well if you call it when the window is minimized to the dock. Same deal - it tends to create(?) a weird unclosable window.
4) It _does_ work well with virtual desktops ( I use virtue ). If you are runing virtue clicking on most apps in the dock will take you to the desktop it's on, but firefox doesn't do that. This script will however, slide the window in on any desktop - though if you switch to a new desktop while the browser is open you need to hit the hotkey twice - once to slide it out of the old desktop, once to slide it in to the new one.

My hope is some whizzbang scripters here can make this a bit more robust, but be aware of that hidden window thingy...



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