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| A common feature found in many extensions is to point the user to <code>chrome://</code> URIs in a browser window (e.g., help or about information) or external (on-line <code>http(s)://</code>) HTML documents when he clicks an extension's button or link.
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| Rather than open a new browser or new tab each and every time the same URI is needed, it is better practice to re-use an existing tab which already displays the desired URI, if one exists. Following this practice minimizes the proliferation of tabs and browsers created by your extension. The following code demonstrates how to do this.
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| <pre>
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| function openAndReuseOneTabPerURL(url) {
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| var wm = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"]
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| .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator);
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| var browserEnumerator = wm.getEnumerator("navigator:browser");
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| // Check each browser instance for our URL
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| var found = false;
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| while (browserEnumerator.hasMoreElements() && !found) {
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| var browserInstance = browserEnumerator.getNext();
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| browserInstance = browserInstance.getBrowser();
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| // Check each tab of this browser instance
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| var index = 0, numTabs = browserInstance.mPanelContainer.childNodes.length;
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| while (index < numTabs && !found) {
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| var currentTab = browserInstance.getBrowserAtIndex(index);
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| if (url == currentTab.currentURI.spec) {
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| // The URL is already opened. Select its tab.
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| browserInstance.selectedTab = currentTab;
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| // Focus *this* browser
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| browserInstance.focus();
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| found = true;
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| }
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| index++;
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| }
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| }
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| // Our URL isn't open. Open it now.
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| if (!found) {
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| var recentWindow = wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser");
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| if (recentWindow) {
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| // Use an existing browser window
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| recentWindow.delayedOpenTab(url);
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| }
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| else {
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| // No browser windows are open, so open a new one.
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| window.open(url);
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| }
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| }
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| }
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| </pre>
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| Sometimes re-using an open tab is not a question of the tabs URI, or additional data is assigned to the tab for later use. In this case, the approach presented above can be slightly modified.
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| Instead of opening the new tab via <code>delayedOpenTab</code> which doesn't return the new tab, the new tab can be created and manipulate manually:
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| <pre>
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| ...
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| if (!found) {
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| // get fresh iterator
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| var browserEnumerator = wm.getEnumerator('navigator:browser');
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| var browserInstance = browserEnumerator.getNext().getBrowser();
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| // create tab
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| var newTab = browserInstance.addTab(url);
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| newTab.setAttribute("some-data", "xyz");
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| // focus tab
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| browserInstance.selectedTab = newTab;
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| }
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| </pre>
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| Now, searching for the tab is just as easy- but requires <code>mTabContainter</code> instead of <code>mPanelContainer</code> for accessing the browser tab:
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| <pre>
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| ...
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| while (index < browserInstance.mTabContainer.childNodes.length && !found)
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| {
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| // get the tab
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| var currentTab = browserInstance.mTabContainer.childNodes[index];
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| // does the tab contain the assigned data?
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| if (currentTab.getAttribute("some-data") == "xyz") {
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| // tab found- select and focus
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| ...
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| found = true;
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| }
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| ...
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| </pre>
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| This code uses techniques discussed in [[Enumerating tabbrowser tabs|Enumerating tabbrowser tabs]] and [[Opening a new browser window (development)|Opening a new browser window]]. It '''does not work''' with the Mozilla Suite; only Firefox and Thunderbird.
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