[Naz]

How do I use Automator to restart my opera browser every 30 mins?

I want to automate a regular restart of the browser I do not know how to write cron jobs or applescripts

but I would really like to keep this running 24/7

with a way to pause it

[- - e r i k - -]

Wow. Makes me wonder why one would ever want to do such a thing.

But I assume AppleScript is capable of this.

[Naz]

why running autosurf sites for traffic

I do not know how to write applescripts so this would not help me find a solution

[RevEvs]

apple script is easy.
make an applescript to stop and start opera as so:

Code:
try
tell application "Opera"
quit
end tell
delay 2
open application "opera"
end try

so that quits opera, waits 2 seconds for it to quit, and then relaunches it. (load it into Script editor to test it)

To run it every 30min you would want to use cron. The easiest way is to download an application called Cronnix. This is an easy GUI to cron.
Set it to run every 30 min by putting a * in all the fields except minutes (where you would put "0,30") - this will make sense once you download cronnix

[BLAZE_MkIV]

you could also put that code into a on idle function and save the script as stay open and not need cron.

on idle

...
...

return 900
end idle

http://applescriptsourcebook.com/articles/144_0_3_0_C/

[Naz]

Thanks for all the help

I will try both so I can learn