hs.application.launchOrFocus not working for Chrome and Firefox

[rjgibson]

I recently encountered the same issue as #1602 for both Chrome and Firefox. Using launchOrFocus with other applications appears to be working fine.

I'm running:

macOS 10.13.1 (High Sierra)
Hammerspoon: 0.9.60
Google Chrome: 64.0.3282.167 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Firefox: 58.0.2 (64-bit)

Executing:

hs.fnutils.each(hs.application.runningApplications(), function(app) print(app:name()) end)

in the Hammerspoon console shows "Google Chrome" for Chrome, and "Firefox" for Firefox. These are the identifiers I'm using as the "name" parameter to hs.application.launchOrFocus(name).

A workaround is to switch from hs.application.launchOrFocus(name) to hs.application.launchOrFocusByBundleID(bundleID), and specify bundleID as "com.google.chrome" or "org.mozilla.firefox".

[cmsj]

hmm, I can't reproduce this, I can launchOrFocus() both Firefox and Google Chrome. Does anything change if you add hs.application.enableSpotlightForNameSearches(true) to your config?

[rjgibson]

It seems to be related to the browser automatically updating itself. I've found that it's a problem even after switching to hs.application.launchOrFocusByBundleID(bundleID) whenever Chrome auto-updates. In that case, restarting Chrome solves the problem until the next auto-update. I can't reproduce it on demand, but I'll try switching back to hs.application.launchOrFocus(name) and including hs.application.enableSpotlightForNameSearches(true) in my config.