Python and Selenium - Close all tabs without closing the browser

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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