Which action can I use to open a new safari tab in the background?

Questions & Suggestions
1

I created a macro to check the address of a link and do various things depending on the address. If the link doesn’t meet the conditions, I will like safari to simply open a new tab in the background.
How do I make the new safari tab open in the background and not the foreground?

2

Hey Mirizzi,

By link do you mean the URL of the front page in Safari?

A link would refer to a link to a URL (URI) within the page itself.

Try this and see if it does what you want.

set myURL to "https://www.google.com"

tell application "Safari"
  tell front window
    make new tab at end of tabs with properties {URL:myURL}
  end tell
end tell

You have to resort to AppleScript to do this anyway, so for economy I’d do everything in AppleScript.

set myURL to "https://www.bing.com"

tell application "Safari"
  tell front window
    if (URL of current tab) starts with "https://www.google.com" then
      make new tab at end of tabs with properties {URL:myURL}
    end if
  end tell
end tell

-Chris

3

Simple and works perfectly. Thanks.