How to open a new window or tab in webdriver (Python)?

Question

I have tried various commands like

driver.switch_to_window(\"_blank\")

or

driver.switch_to_window(None)

b

Answer 1

After tons of googling, I came across what works for me in Firefox and which is so simple (elegant, maybe?) as to be almost laughable. Here it is:

>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> driver = webdriver.Firefox()
>>> driver.execute_script("window.open('');")  <--- JAVASCRIPT!