Re: open URL in the current tab

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From	Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com>
Date	2012-12-10 23:51 +0100
Subject	Re: open URL in the current tab
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Thanks. I've found something interesting since then:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozrepl/
https://github.com/bard/mozrepl/wiki

It allows you to connect to your Firefox via telnet. Then changing the URL:

content.location.href = <new_url>

However, for this you need to install this add-on.

Laszlo

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Boris FELD <lothiraldan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Re: open URL in the current tab Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com> - 2012-12-10 23:51 +0100

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