Can you open url in new tab without changing focus?

[jsherk]

I searched the docs and the forum and still cannot figure out how to do this...

I want to open a url in a new tab (Firefox), but I do not want to wait for the url to load and I do not want the focus to change to the new tab.

I have this code:

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TAB T=1
TAB OPEN
TAB T=2
URL GOTO=http://mydomain.com
TAB T=1

The problem is that it changes the focus to the new tab and then waits for the page to load before it returns the tab 1 and continues the macro. I need to stay on tab 1 and continue the macro while the url page is loading in the other tab.

Is there a way do this?

Thanks

[jbwocky]

Hi,

I don't believe there is a way to do what you want. The closest you can get to that is by lowering the timeout (the time the macro waits for the page to load) to the lowest possible value for the page you want to load in the second tab, and setting errorignore to yes, so that it doesn't crash the macro, like this:

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TAB T=1
SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
SET !TIMEOUT 1
TAB OPEN
TAB T=2
URL GOTO=http://www.amazon.com
SET !ERRORIGNORE NO
SET !TIMEOUT 60
TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.google.com

[jsherk]

I actually tried that as well, but the problem is that if the page in the new tab does not load completely in that 1 second interval then it aborts the rest of the page load as opposed to continuing!

I wonder if it can be done from JavaScript? I will look into it..

Thanks

[Tom, Tech Support]

See my response on this post:

http://forum.imacros.net/viewtopic.php?f= ... 778#p34778

I wonder if it can be done from JavaScript? I will look into it.

Good idea, don't forget to share your results!