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

open a new tab:

browser.get('http://www.google.com')

close a tab:

browser.close()

switch to a tab:

browser.swith_to_window(window_name)

Answer 2

There's nothing easier and clearer than just running JavaScript.

Open new tab: driver.execute_script("window.open('');")

Answer 3

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]).

Answer 4

You can choose which window you want to close：

window_name = browser.window_handles[0]

Switch window：

browser.switch_to.window(window_name=window_name)

Then close it：

browser.close()

Answer 5

Open new tab:

browser.execute_script("window.open('"+your url+"', '_blank')")

Switch to new tab:

browser.switch_to.window(windows[1])