To my surprise, I was able to reproduce this weird problem by using your settings.  It turns out that, as a courtesy, if you're not showing the Inspector, BookMacster re-activates the browser after creating the bookmark, so you can continue browsing uninterrupted.  It identifies which browser by looking at the User-Agent string, which the browser self-reports.  Well, for some strange reason, Google Chrome 8.0 reports itself as both "Chrome" and "Safari", and as luck would have it, BookMacster is picking the latter of the two.

We need to push an update out in the next couple days to fix a couple other bugs anyhow, so we'll fix this and roll it in.  Make sure your "Check for Update" is on, so you'll get BookMacster 5.3.15.

Thanks for the report, and your data.

PMC Systems wrote on Jan 30^th, 2011 at 1:05pm:
You can receive email notifications as explained in the first "sticky" message at the top of this board.

If you could send me some data I'd like to look at your settings, or maybe I can reproduce the problem.  To do this, in BookMacster's menu click Help ▸ Trouble Zipper.  Trouble Zipper may take a few seconds to download.  Trouble Zipper will launch automatically.  You may answer "Don't Include" to the questions except for Question F (Files), please include the Bookmarkshelf which you normally have open when this occurs.  Then email or attach here the resulting .zip as instructed.

Thanks.

No problem about the delay; we always have other stuff to do 

PMC Systems wrote on Jan 30^th, 2011 at 4:54am:
No, your experimental result tells me that it's not what I thought it might have been, so it must be something even more weird.  Need to think about this.

Try this, PNC.  Google Chrome has a combination URL/Address/Search field near the top of the window.  Delete all the text in there and then type in:

      bookmacster://

Then hit your enter key.

Expected result:  BookMacster should launch if it is not running, bring its windows to the front, and show its menu bar.  In geek-speak we'd say that BookMacster should become the active application.

What happens when you do this?  Does Safari become the active application instead of BookMacster?

And, by the way, when you click the BookMacsterize bookmarklet and Safari launches, does a bookmark at least get created in your Bookmarkshelf as expected?

PMC Systems wrote on Jan 28^th, 2011 at 12:21am:
You mean when you click the BookMacsterize Bookmarklet?  That's pretty weird.  I'll try and reproduce that.  I was going to ask if you really meant this, but I see you repeated it later in your message.  What browsers have you tried this in (clicking the BookMacsterize Bookmarklet)?

PMC Systems wrote on Jan 28^th, 2011 at 12:21am:
No, Agents should have nothing to do with that.  But, again, I'll check it out.

PMC Systems wrote on Jan 28^th, 2011 at 12:21am:
In that case you want no Agents.  In Settings ▸ Agents, uncheck everything.  Then, in Settings ▸ Open/Save, check ON Export (Mirror-Save).  Just like any document in any normal Mac app, if you have unsaved changes it will ask if you want to save before closing, and with that box checked it will Export too.

PMC Systems wrote on Jan 28^th, 2011 at 12:21am:
That shouldn't be happening.