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Count the number of Safari tabs

A developer shared a tiny AppleScript tip to count the number of open Safari tabs using the command 'osascript -e "tell application \"Safari\" to count tabs of every window"'.

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29th June 2026

Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari:

osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window'

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