This example is pretty bad AppleScript. A much better way of writing this exact behavior is: tell the first window of the application "Safari" close the

This example is pretty bad AppleScript. A much better way of writing this exact behavior is: tell the first window of the application "Safari" close the first tab end tell Of course a real script would do things like make sure there is such a window, or be more specific than "the one on top", which is implicit in both these scripts. I am not enamored with AppleScript for a number of reasons, but this example is just bad, and does not really show any of the actual problems with AppleScript/