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Creating a Desktop Shortcut on a Mac

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Making a desktop shortcut icon on the Mac is pretty easy.  Open up the AppleScript script editor and make a script like this:do shell script “/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P Developer -no-remote &” Then save as an application on the desktop.  Done. This example shows how to pass parameters from AppleScript.  In particular, it shows how to open [...]

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Firefox Incorrect Window Position

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Okay. I’ve been enjoying Firefox 3 Beta, but today it started opening up its window way off to the right of my desktop and about the height and width of a stamp. WTF? A little Googling led me to a fix: Corrupt localstore.rdf. So if you’re Firefox window starts misbehaving, try deleting localstore.rdf in your [...]

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