Opening a new unfocused tab in Chrome or Firefox with Python on Windows OS (or some other browser /-CodePudding

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My first attempt was trying it with the webbrowser module and its autoraise argument:

sof = 'https://stackoverflow.com' webbrowser.open(sof, new=0, autoraise=False) webbrowser.open(sof, new=2, autoraise=False) webbrowser.open_new_tab(sof)

None of the above options caused the tab in Chrome to open in the background keeping focus on the tab that was already open.

So I went for another try using subprocess and its getoutput function:

r = subprocess.getoutput(f"google-chrome-stable https://stackoverflow.com") r

That option didn't even open a new tab in my browser.

MOZILLA FIREFOX:

My attempt was trying it with the webbrowser module and its autoraise argument (As my default browser is different I need to set the browser):

sof = 'https://stackoverflow.com' webbrowser.register('firefox', None, webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser("C://Program Files//Mozilla Firefox//firefox.exe")) webbrowser.get('firefox').open(sof, new=0, autoraise=False)

In neither of the two I managed to make this functionality work.

How should I proceed?

Other browsers and parallel methods to achieve such a result are welcome in the responses as well!

CodePudding user response：

Chrome:

I don't think it is feasible (at least not w/ chrome). See this StackExchange answer for details. Especially the mentioned bug that most likely will never get fixed.

Firefox:

Same here, did some research and the only solution to get it to work is changing the config option 'browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground' to 'true'

launch background tab like this (or from py with os or subprocess module):

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -new-tab "https://stackoverflow.com/"

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/2276679/2606766. But again I don't think this solves your problem, does it?

CodePudding user response：

maybe you can try to stimulate the keyboard using pynput library, then stimulating crtl Tab to change to the new open website?

*edit: to open the previous tab, press crtl shift tab

import webbrowser, time from pynput.keyboard import Key,Controller keyboard = Controller() webbrowser.open("https://www.youtube.com/") time.sleep(3) keyboard.press(Key.ctrl) keyboard.press(Key.shift) keyboard.press(Key.tab) keyboard.release(Key.ctrl) keyboard.release(Key.shift) keyboard.release(Key.tab)