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From: Boris FELD <lothiraldan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:43:50 +0100
Subject: Re: open URL in the current tab
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Don't think that it's possible with webbrowser, you should try with Selenium.

For example with sst (Simple Selenium Test), it open url in current
tab or create a new one if no one exists:

from sst.actions import *
go_to('http://www.ubuntu.com/')

2012/12/10 Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> With the webbrowser module you can open a URL in a new tab. But how
> could I tell Firefox from Python to open a URL in the _current_ tab?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laszlo
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