Open web in new tab Selenium + Python

Question

So I am trying to open websites on new tabs inside my WebDriver. I want to do this, because opening a new WebDriver for each website takes about 3.5secs using PhantomJS, I w

Answer 1

Strangely, so many answers, and all of them are using surrogates like JS and keyboard shortcuts instead of just using a selenium feature:

def newTab(driver, url="about:blank"):
    wnd = driver.execute(selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains.Command.NEW_WINDOW)
    handle = wnd["value"]["handle"]
    driver.switch_to.window(handle)
    driver.get(url) # changes the handle
    return driver.current_window_handle