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Thanks for the screenshot. We will be making adjustment changes to the UI over the next few releases... Stay tuned!

Thanks for looking into it. I guess I'll likely have to wait for a Firefox release with fixed Applescript. In the meantime is there a workaround to get my Firefox application use listed? I tried renaming the application but that had no effect.

I agree with most of the points made here. In particular, the time related controls should be up with the timeline as the original poster mentioned. See screenshot

Ok - I'm digging through the detail of that bug text. I have found references to a number of other applications showing similar non-consistent issues with the same error. I haven't found any workable solution yet, but I'll keep searching.

here is what I get:

tell application "Firefox"
get «class curl» of window 1
"Firefox got an error: Can’t get «class curl» of window 1."

If I delete the "class curl line" I get:

tell application "Firefox"
get every property of window 1
"Can’t make every property of window 1 of application \"Firefox\" into type Unicode text."

when deleting the "as text" I get:
tell application "Firefox"
get every property of window 1
"Firefox got an error: Can’t get every property of window 1."

Well shoot. Ok, try running this slightly modified version of the script:

tell application "Firefox"
set fullURL to «class curl» of window 1
properties of window 1 as text
end tell
display alert "Firefox URL = " & fullURL

At the bottom of the Script Editor window is an "Event Log" select. Once you run that script you should see a bunch of text in that section. Could you paste your results?

Here are mine for reference:

tell application "Firefox"
get «class curl» of window 1
"http://getsatisfaction.com/rescuetime/topics/firefox_3_on_mac_still_not_supported"
get every property of window 1
{«class pObT»:window, «class pTit»:"", «class curl»:"http://getsatisfaction.com/rescuetime/topics/firefox_3_on_mac_still_not_supported", index:1, bounds:{0, 0, 1440, 900}, «class pLcn»:{0, 0}, closeable:false, titled:false, modal:false, resizable:false, zoomable:false, zoomed:false, «class pNMo»:true, «class pMMo»:false, floating:false, visible:false}
end tell
tell current application
display alert "Firefox URL = http://getsatisfaction.com/rescuetime..."
{button returned:"OK"}
end tell

I guess this Firefox bug is relevant to this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug...
Strange that it works for others though.

I also just tried running Firefox in safe mode (to disable all my extensions and customizations) and still get the same error when running the Applescript.

Thanks a lot for the fast response and detailed instructions.
I checked and all those settings were already as they should be. And my Firefox version string is exactly the same as yours.

The special characters « and » are intentional.

Well, if the script won't run then that would explain why you're not seeing URL information from Firefox 3. Now we just need to determine why your installation of Firefox doesn't like that statement.

Are you running the English-US version of Firefox 3? If I do an "About Mozilla Firefox", I get the following information:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0

If you have a different language version let me know and I'll get that installed on our test server to see if that could be causing a problem.

Also, here are a couple of AppleScript settings to check:

- Run the AppleScript Utility located at: Macintosh HD:Applications:AppleScript:AppleScript Utility
Make sure the setting for "GUI Scripting" is enabled.

- Also on the AppleScript Utility window is a button labeled "Universal Access...", click that button and it will take you to the Universal Access settings. Near the bottom of that screen is a checkbox for "Enable access for assistive devices", make sure that is checked.

Let me know any of that gets you any further. You should be able to double check by re-running that Firefox test script in my previous reply.

Thanks!

No, that does not work for me. I suspect it is due to the special characters around "class curl" though. When copying and pasting the script I get an error saying: "Firefox got an error: Can’t get «class curl» of window 1."
I am running RescueTime 1.0.3 and Firefox 3.0 (release).

RescueTime 1.0.3 on the Mac should fully support Firefox 3, which is the browser I use typically throughout the day.

Here is a quick that simulates how RescueTime captures the URL from Firefox 3.

- first open up the AppleScript "Script Editor.app" located at Applications:AppleScript:Script Editor.app

Paste in the following into the Script Editor window:

tell application "Firefox"
set fullURL to «class curl» of window 1
end tell
display alert "Firefox URL = " & fullURL

Then click the "Run" button and you should be presented with a dialog box that contains the URL of your current Firefox session.

Let me know if that works for you,

Thanks!

Skype or VOIP in general is another type of application that typically involves little or no mouse/keyboard activity yet should be logged.

I am having the same problem. I am using FF3 Beta 5 (english) on OSX. I just started using RescueTime, but so far no URLs have been logged at all. Firefox time shows up in the logs with window titles, but it does not show up in the web app at all (so far).