Question

I want to create a MSWindows Python program that would launch a new Firefox window with multiple tabs each time it is run. For example if I want to search “hello”, a new window pops out (even if a Firefox window is already open) and then launches a Google and Bing tabs searching for “hello”. If I change the keyword to “world”, a new browser pops out again with Google and Bing tabs searching for “world”.

I’ve looked at the webbrowser module but couldn’t get it to:
1. Launch a new browser when a browser is already open: e.g. webbrowser.open(‘http://www.google.com‘,new=1) will instead open a new tab
2. Launch multiple tabs simultaneously in the same window

Appreciate the help.

Thanks.

Answer 1

webbrowser just doesn’t give you this degree of control. Use subprocess instead, to explicitly launch firefox with a new window and then add tabs to it. The firefox command line arguments reference is here, but, briefly, what you want is one firefox.exe -new-window <url> (using the URL you want in lieu of <url> of course), then one or more firefox.exe -new-tab <url> (ditto). You may also want to control width and height, use a different profile from the default one, etc — the command-line arguments let you do all that.