Opening New Tabs With Javascript

[clemen 0]

I just spent a couple of hours trying to figure out how to open new tabs from a Firefox sidebar. I found lots of different suggestions but none worked. Well finally I found this and it works.

 

var browser = top.document.getElementById("content");

var tab = browser.addTab("https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl;);

 

An even better way of doing it is through:

 

const kWindowMediatorContractID = "@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1";

const kWindowMediatorIID = Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator;

const kWindowMediator = Components.classes[kWindowMediatorContractID].getService(kWindowMediatorIID);

var browserWindow = kWindowMediator.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser");

var browser = browserWindow.getBrowser();

var tab = browser.addTab("https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl;);

 

This will work from anywhere in Firefox. Sidebar, popup and ordinary pages.

 

got from Larry William's Weblog

 

XS: IE and Mozilla also provide the _search value to open links in the search sidebar.

[ill 0]

you got to put quote tags around that, since you have got it from another site!