A solution concept of how to run firefox automation on number of tabs.
Basically this solution uses an express server in the background to help us launch a static managment page that exposes several functions in the page global scope (view: index.html)
- createTab: creates a new tab by using the
window.open()method - closeTab: closes a tab by using
window.close()method
Once we have launched our main tab with the managment page, we can evaluate the functions as so:
const result = await mainTab.console.evaluateJSAsync('return createTab("' + tabId + '")');
This will result opening a new tab with the url of "http://localhost:/firefox/<TAB_ID>".
Now, in order to fetch that tab, we can use the listTabs method of the browser object, and look for the newly opened tab:
const tabList = await browser.listTabs()
for (let t of tabList){
if (tabId === t.data.url.split("/firefox/")[1]){
return t
}
}