Open and close new tab with Selenium WebDriver in OS X

Question

I\'m using the Firefox Webdriver in Python 2.7 on Windows to simulate opening (Ctrl+t) and closing (Ctrl + w) a new tab.

Answer 1

Just to combine the answers above for someone still curious. The below is based on Python 2.7 and a driver in Chrome.

Open new tab by: driver.execute_script("window.open("+URL+", '__blank__');") where URL is a string such as "http://www.google.com".

Close tab by: driver.close() [Note, this also doubles as driver.quit() when you only have 1 tab open].

Navigate between tabs by: driver.switch_to_window(driver.window_handles[0]) and driver.switch_to_window(driver.window_handles[1]).