Don't think that it's possible with webbrowser, you should try with Selenium.
For example with sst (Simple Selenium Test), it open url in current tab or create a new one if no one exists: from sst.actions import * go_to('http://www.ubuntu.com/') 2012/12/10 Jabba Laci <jabba.l...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > With the webbrowser module you can open a URL in a new tab. But how > could I tell Firefox from Python to open a URL in the _current_ tab? > > Thanks, > > Laszlo > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list