AutoIt with Firefox

Question

I have several tabs open in Firefox. I want AutoIt to activate a particular tab in Firefox. How can this be done?

Answer 1

As Copas said, use FF.au3. Function _FFTabSetSelected($regex,"label") will select first tab with name matching given $regex.

Answer 2

I haven't touched AutoIt in years, but IIRC it will be:

setMousePos(x, y)    // tab position
click("left")

Answer 3

Give the whole browser window focus, then use the send command to repeatedly send it cntl-tab until the window's title is the name of the tab you want (with - Mozilla Firefox at the end).

Answer 4

There's a UDF (User Defined Functions -include file) called FF.au3. Looks like the function you want is _FFTabSetSelected(), good luck!

Below is an example of Jeanne Pindar's method. This is the way I would do it.

#include <array.au3>

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

activateTab("Gmail")
Func activateTab($targetWindowKeyphrase)
    WinActivate("- Mozilla Firefox")
    For $i = 0 To 100
        If StringInStr(WinGetTitle(WinActive("")),$targetWindowKeyphrase) Then
            MsgBox(0,"Found It", "The tab with the key phrase " & $targetWindowKeyphrase & " is now active.")
            Return
        EndIf
        Send("^{TAB}")
        Sleep(200)
    Next
EndFunc

Answer 5

Here you go...

AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

$searchString = "amazon"

WinActivate("Mozilla Firefox")
For $i = 0 To 100
    Send("^" & $i)
    Sleep(250)
    If Not(StringInStr(WinGetTitle("[ACTIVE]"), $searchString) = 0) Then
        MsgBox(0, "Done", "Found it!")
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
Next

Just delete the MsgBox and you're all set!

Answer 6

Nop... The script is buggy ^^'... no need to count to 100, and there is a problem with the "send" after it:

If you send ctrl + number =>the number can't be bigger than 9... Because ten is a number with 2 caracters, Firefox can't activate tab 10 with shortcut.

And by the way when the script is working there is a moment he release the ctrl key.. It don't send ten, but ctrl and 1 end zero ... and splash !!! It just send the number in the window. So we need to learn to the script that the second time he's back to $i = 0 or one, all the tabs was seen, no need to continue, even if the text you're searching for was not found. So I made my own script based on the old one:

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AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

$searchString = "The string you're looking for"
Local $o = 0
WinActivate("The Name of the process where you're searching")
For $i = 0 To 9
   Send("^" & $i)
   Sleep(250)
      if ($i = 9) Then
         $o += 1
      EndIf
      If not (StringInStr(WinGetTitle("[ACTIVE]"), $searchString) = 0) Then
            MsgBox("","","Found it !") ;your action,  the text was found.
            ExitLoop
      ElseIf ($o = 1) Then
            MsgBox("","","All tab seen, not found...") ;your action, the text was not found, even after looking all title.
            ExitLoop
      EndIf
   Next
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