I just want to refresh an already opened web page with Selenium
.
It always opens a new browser window.
What I'm doing wrong?
from selenium import webdriver
import urllib
import urllib2
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.refresh()
I would suggest binding the driver element search to the tag body and use the refresh command of the browser.
In OSX for example
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.COMMAND + 'r')
Documentation on keys here: http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html
Update: The following code, very similar to your one, works fine for me.
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(response.url) #tested in combination with scrapy
time.sleep(3)
driver.refresh()
Are you sure you correctly load the web page with the driver before refreshing it ?