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Dear fellow scripters, a while ago I was looking for a solution to retrieve the URL from a firefox window. While browsing the forums I soon found out that there was no clean solution unfortunately.

Well do I have news for all of you I just found a firefox extension (URL2Title) that adds the URL to the windows title. Here's the link to the author's website: http://xeen.reversestudios.com/?page=u2t

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i dont know how long a while ago this was, but there is a discussion thread which shows there is a sufficient, pure-Ahk solution to this.

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@ Decarlo110: Admittedly, that was a while ago (some two weeks). I had a look at the post you mentioned but that's still a fairly complex solution in which you switch to the address bar to retrieve the URL. The disadvantage of this is that you can't return the focus to a box in which you were typing.

I was trying to create shortcuts to often used buttons in my inbox (so that e.g. pressing RIGHT takes you to the next e-mail, or HOME back to the inbox, but only when the URL is this and this. This meant that the programme switched to the address bar every time to check the URL and even if it wasn't the one needed to do any of the abovementioned actions, you still had lost the focus in the box in which you were typing.

Installing this extension means that checking a URL is as simple as
IfWinActive, (name-of-window-plus-(part-of)-URL). Probably the best thing is that the URL only appears in the windows title after the page is done loading, so no separate checks are needed for that as well.

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For the music lover who can sit and enjoy the sound of someone else's evolving nightmare.

I didn't know about those other details in the first post. In any event, thanks for sharing the Firefox URL-retrieval solution.

It seems that the developers of Firefox purposely made things like this difficult, to defeat downloaded malware scripts or make it difficult for those from having their effect. But the search for convenience will chip away at such built-in security enhancements. These things will continue to play out... i dont know if there will ever be a stable balance.

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