Python and Selenium - Close all tabs without closing the browser

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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?

selenium-webdriver selenium python
5 Answers

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.

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curr=driver.current_window_handle
for handle in driver.window_handles:
   driver.switch_to.window(handle)
   if handle != curr:
      driver.close()
user_148451160

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
user_82987710

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

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