How do I change focus to a new popup tab in Selenium?

Question

I\'m using Selenium and Firefox.

I have a link on a page (say linkA) that opens a new page in a new tab. The new tab is displayed when linkA is clicked. I then w

Answer 1

lericain59's sent me in the right direction, though I had to make a few changes for it work with my version of selenium's IDE (I'm running 1.0.6). Also, for my purposes, I didn't need to verify so much that it opened in a separate window, only that it was opening the correct window.

Here's the script that worked for me.

• storeEval | this.browserbot.findElement('link=click here').href | myUrl |
• open | ${myUrl} ||

this.page() didn't work. It seems to have been replaced with this.browserbot. Also, I just opened the page directly - it avoids a manual pause and has less steps.