Hi I am making a firefox extension which needs to open a link in anew tab in the same window of firefox. How should i do this? This opens in a new window (replacing the old window):
window.location = url;
This opens in the same tab
window.content.document.location = url
Any idea on how to open the url in a new tab?
Have you tried window.open(url)
? I'm guessing opening specifically in a new tab (as opposed to a new window) is part of the browser behavior that can't be controlled via JavaScript.
This works guys! :))
var wm = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"] .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator);
var mainWindow = wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser");
mainWindow.gBrowser.selectedTab = mainWindow.gBrowser.addTab("http://google.com");
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