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Álvaro N. Franz
Álvaro N. Franz

Reputation: 1238

Python and Selenium - Close all tabs without closing the browser

I want to close all open tabs (browser windows) without actually closing the driver, because I want to keep using it.

driver.close() will just close the focused tab.
driver.quit() will close them all but also quit the driver.

I thought about using driver.quit() and then re-opening the driver. But it does not seem very clean. Or maybe it is super clean, but also a slow thing to do.

Note: Using Firefox via geckodriver

How can I approach this?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 27135

Answers (5)

user3623213
user3623213

Reputation: 91

This will only close window, your selenium driver session still runs.

driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0])

Upvotes: 1

Stephin
Stephin

Reputation: 101

curr=driver.current_window_handle
for handle in driver.window_handles:
   driver.switch_to.window(handle)
   if handle != curr:
      driver.close()

Upvotes: 9

Sonic
Sonic

Reputation: 21

simply using this to ommit first tab, solution works for me!

    try:
    firstTime = True
    for handle in browser.window_handles:
        browser.switch_to.window(handle)
        if(not firstTime):
            browser.close()
        firstTime = False
except:
    return

Upvotes: 0

automationleg
automationleg

Reputation: 323

Window handles can be used for that as well. Loop through all opened windows and close them:

for handle in driver.window_handles:
    driver.switch_to.window(handle)
    driver.close()

This should close all browser windows.

Upvotes: 10

Guy
Guy

Reputation: 50949

You can close the tabs by sending ctrl + w to the page until you don't have any tabs left. Keep a record of how many tabs you opened and use a loop to close them

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

num_of_tabs = ...
for x in range(1, num_of_tabs):
    self.driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.COMMAND + 'W')

This will close all the tabs but one. Closing the last one will not close the driver, but you won't be able to use it.

Upvotes: 4

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