How to activate a inactive tab in Chrome

[Leanna]

Hello,

Could you help me, how can I activate a Chrome tab?

The tab is not active among other Chrome tabs.

WinActivate("[TITLE:Yahoo! - Google Chrome]")

This code works only if "Yahoo! - Google Chrome" is an active tab in Chrome, in this case it works even if chrome is minimized or inactive.The code doesn't work if another tab is active for ex. Google tab.

Could you help me to solve it?

[JohnOne]

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",2)

WinActivate("[TITLE:Google Chrome]")

Edited January 27, 2012 by JohnOne

[Leanna]

I've tested it.

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",2) 
WinActivate("[TITLE:Yahoo! - Google Chrome]")

Works the same as

WinActivate("[TITLE:Yahoo! - Google Chrome]")

i.e. If chrome is inactive and the tab Yahoo is active - it activates Chrome,

but if Chrome is inactive and Yahoo tab is inactive - nothing happens.

Is there something else for solution?

Thank you for trying to help.

[somdcomputerguy]

Both of those snippets should work the same, Leanna, the WinActivate line is the same in both of them. Try JohnOne's post again. Basically, with WinTitleMatchMode - 2, and [TITLE:Google Chrome], Chrome will be activated no matter which tab is current. That is what you're after, right? See the help file for more info about WinTitleMatchMode.

Edited January 29, 2012 by somdcomputerguy

[JohnOne]

I would have thought that would work

Try it this way if it does not

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",2)
WinActivate("Google Chrome")

[Leanna]

Yes, this works, it opens chrome. But what I need is to open a preopened tab with the Name Yahoo!. And the Yahoo tab may be not active.

For example I have several tabs opened in Chrome: Google Yahoo and Amazon. Google tab is active. But i need to activate Yahoo tab.

Is that possible?

[somdcomputerguy]

With the FF.au3 UDF, in the Example Scripts forum, this would be possible. With Firefox though. I don't think there is a UDF for Chrome that would make this possible.

[Mikeman27294]

Just send a keystroke, if you already know the position of the opened tab. Try pressing CTRL+1, then CTRL+2, then 3 and 4 and see what happens to the tabs. You could then possibly set wintitlematchmode to 0 again to check whether it is the correct tab open. It is a dodgy work-around, but it could work.

[glumbler]

Func Quora ()
    WinActivate ( " - Google Chrome" )
    _SendEx ( "^l" )
    _SendEx ("tab ")
    Sleep ( 50 )
    _SendEx ( "quora")
    Sleep ( 50 )
    _SendEx ("{DOWN}{DOWN}{DOWN}{DOWN}{DOWN}{DOWN}{DOWN}{DOWN}{DOWN}")
    Sleep ( 50 )
    _SendEx ( "{ENTER}" )
    ;FindTab ()
EndFunc

Requires the TabTab Search Chrome Extension

Edited December 9, 2015 by glumbler
Found a better way...

[khaihong]

I can't believe there isn't a function for this, I was looking for one. Despite this being a really old thread, it showed up near the top of my search, so I'll put my solution here for posterity. A simple (6 lines) "while" loop will do the job:

WinActivate("[TITLE:Google Chrome]")

$currTab = WinGetTitle("[ACTIVE]")

while StringInStr($currTab, "Yahoo!") = 0
Send('^{TAB}')
$currTab = WinGetTitle("[ACTIVE]")
WEnd