I want AutoIt to activate a particular tab in Firefox. How can this be done?

Question

I have several tabs open in Firefox. I want AutoIt to activate a particular tab in Firefox. How can this be done?

Gerkman

Answer 1

Give the whole browser window focus, then use the send command to repeatedly send it cntl-tab until the window's title is the name of the tab you want (with - Mozilla Firefox at the end).

Erudition

I saw someone do it without having to alt-tab through all of the window titles using autoit, but I don't know how they did it because I didn't see the source. – Gerkman

Answer 2

There's a UDF (User Defined Functions -include file) called FF.au3. Looks like the function you want is _FFTabSetSelected(), good luck!

Below is an example of Jeanne Pindar's method. This is the way I would do it.

#include <array.au3>

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

activateTab("Gmail")
Func activateTab($targetWindowKeyphrase)
    WinActivate("- Mozilla Firefox")
    For $i = 0 To 100
        If StringInStr(WinGetTitle(WinActive("")),$targetWindowKeyphrase) Then
            MsgBox(0,"Found It", "The tab with the key phrase " & $targetWindowKeyphrase & " is now active.")
            Return
        EndIf
        Send("^{TAB}")
        Sleep(200)
    Next
EndFunc

Clevie

The FF.au3 include requires that MozRepl be installed, you can get it here: github.com/bard/mozrepl/wiki. – Surd

Answer 3

Here you go...

AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

$searchString = "amazon"

WinActivate("Mozilla Firefox")
For $i = 0 To 100
    Send("^" & $i)
    Sleep(250)
    If Not(StringInStr(WinGetTitle("[ACTIVE]"), $searchString) = 0) Then
        MsgBox(0, "Done", "Found it!")
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
Next

Just delete the MsgBox and you're all set!

Lauer

Answer 4

As Copas said, use FF.au3. Function _FFTabSetSelected($regex,"label") will select first tab with name matching given $regex.

Azerbaijan

+1 about 1 line code & +1 about do not send events. UNLIKE any send or click to active windows when you can use Objects. This is the correct way to set selected Tab. Doing that you can close a Tab without interfere other windows, also if the Windows containing the tab is Hidden. – History

Answer 5

Nop... The script is buggy ^^'... no need to count to 100, and there is a problem with the "send" after it:

If you send ctrl + number =>the number can't be bigger than 9... Because ten is a number with 2 caracters, Firefox can't activate tab 10 with shortcut.

And by the way when the script is working there is a moment he release the ctrl key.. It don't send ten, but ctrl and 1 end zero ... and splash !!! It just send the number in the window. So we need to learn to the script that the second time he's back to $i = 0 or one, all the tabs was seen, no need to continue, even if the text you're searching for was not found. So I made my own script based on the old one:

##
AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

$searchString = "The string you're looking for"
Local $o = 0
WinActivate("The Name of the process where you're searching")
For $i = 0 To 9
   Send("^" & $i)
   Sleep(250)
      if ($i = 9) Then
         $o += 1
      EndIf
      If not (StringInStr(WinGetTitle("[ACTIVE]"), $searchString) = 0) Then
            MsgBox("","","Found it !") ;your action,  the text was found.
            ExitLoop
      ElseIf ($o = 1) Then
            MsgBox("","","All tab seen, not found...") ;your action, the text was not found, even after looking all title.
            ExitLoop
      EndIf
   Next
##

Sidonie

Answer 6

I haven't touched AutoIt in years, but IIRC it will be:

setMousePos(x, y)    // tab position
click("left")

Temptation

I want it to active a tab based on its name, not on its position. – Gerkman

MouseClick("Left", x, y,) would be how you would left click somewhere in AutoIt v3. – Clevie