Selenium won't open a new URL in a new tab (Python & Chrome)

Question

I want to open quite a few URLs in different tabs using Selenium WebDriver & Python.

I am not sure what is going wrong:

driver = webdriver.Chrome         


        

Answer 1

An alternative way to open a new window is to use JavaScript and the window handler to switch between them.

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# Open a new window
# This does not change focus to the new window for the driver.
driver.execute_script("window.open('');")

# Switch to the new window
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com")

# close the active tab
driver.close()

# Switch back to the first tab
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0])
driver.get("http://google.se")

# Close the only tab, will also close the browser.
driver.close()

If you look at your browser while you're executing it will look like the new window has focus, but to the webdriver, it doesn't. Don't be fooled by the visual. Also remember to select a new window handler when you close a tab as it will set the driver.current_window_handle to

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchWindowException: 
    Message: no such window: target window already closed from unknown error: web view not found
  (Session info: chrome=)
  (Driver info: chromedriver= (),platform=)

on .close() and it will throw that error if you try to do stuff with the driver at that stage.