How can I have a set of tabs open at statup?

Hi Robert

Safari is designed to open in a specific URL, or as an empty page. One workaround is to create a folder with your favorite URL's inside. Do this in your Bookmarks Manager (to open or close: /Option/B Keys). Click on your Bookmarks Bar collection. Then on the right side create a folder, moving the various URL's inside. Then select the "auto-click" box next to the Folder. Close the Bookmarks manager.

Now, go to the Bookmarks Bar and click on the folder. Tabs will automatically be created (assuming you have "enabled tabs" in your Safari Preferences) for each URL.

So set your Safari Preferences>General>New Windows open with to "empty page". When you start-up Safari an empty page appears. Click on the Folder you just created, and everything automatically opens from there.

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Hi Robert

Glad it worked. Yes, you can make copies by the option/drag, or copy/paste is another way.

. Please consider marking this post "solved" to the far right of my name, next to the post "solving" your question.

Helpful for others looking for a solved solution to a similar question, also helpful for me.

Aloha from Big Island.

1) Set your system preferences to start your computer at a specific time.
2) enter a crontab entry to execute a specific shell script 1 min after startup.
3) modify the shell script to open specific web pages. (make sure your script is executable)
4) Enjoy your automated mac.

I wrote an crontab and shell script to make this work. I use it daily. This way my mac gets my favorite web pages around 6:00 am and they are open for me when I start my machine for work around 8:00 am or later.

01 06 1-31 1-12 0-6 /Users/Henry/hwperl/daily.sh

That is my crontab entry. (google how to edit crontab. Your just telling your computer to execute this little program every day. )

http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/crontab. 5.html

This is the contents of daily.sh. (I LIke horoscopes and news)

a) (Copy from #! to EOF and save this to a script called daily.sh)
b) chmod +x daily.sh from the command line to make your script executable.

#!/bin/sh

osascript <<EOF>

property target_1 : "http://astrocenter.astrology.msn.com/msn/MyCareer.aspx?When=0&Af=-1000&VS="
property target_2 : "http://astrocenter.astrology.msn.com/msn/MyToday.aspx?Af=-1000&VS="
property target_3 : "http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/horoscope/index.html"
property target_4 : "http://www.click2houston.com/horoscopes/756538/detail.html"
property target_5 : "http://news.google.com/"
property target_6 : "http://my.bbc.com/"
property target_7 : "http://www.click2houston.com/index.html"
property target_8 : "http://www.click2weather.com/index.html"
property target_9 : "http://www.eastrolog.com/daily-horoscope.php?args=cancer&days=0"
property target_10 : "http://www.lucknet.com/signes/cancers.htm"
property target_11 : "http://www.uclick.com/client/dmn/el/"
property target_12 : "http://www.slashdot.org"
property target_13 : "http://www.chron.com/"
property target_14 : "http://www.cnn.com/"
property target_15 : "http://www.foxnews.com/"


tell application "Safari" to open location target_1
tell application "Safari" to open location target_2
tell application "Safari" to open location target_3
tell application "Safari" to open location target_4
tell application "Safari" to open location target_5
tell application "Safari" to open location target_6
tell application "Safari" to open location target_7
tell application "Safari" to open location target_8
tell application "Safari" to open location target_9
tell application "Safari" to open location target_10
tell application "Safari" to open location target_11
tell application "Safari" to open location target_12
tell application "Safari" to open location target_13
tell application "Safari" to open location target_14
tell application "Safari" to open location target_15

EOF

references:

http://forum.maccast.com/index.php?showtopic=8844&hl=

Last thing to do is select system preferences => energy saver => schedule and tell the mac to turn on at a specific time of day. Your crontab entry should be scheduled to start about a minute after your computer starts.

Now your mac will fetch your web pages automatically!

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CORRECTION

osascript <<EOF>

should be osascript <<EOF

I can't edit my previous post!! (ADMINS CAN YOU FIX THIS??

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