Tab closing Mechanize::Firefox

PerlSufi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks,
I have successfully created a crawler with WWW::Mechanize::Firefox that downloads a file that I need. My problem is that I am having trouble autoclosing the tab.

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new(launch => 'C:\Program Files (x
+86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe',
         autoclose => 1,
         autodie => 1);
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It seems to auto close when I sign out of my account, but not automatically when the script is done- even if I have 'exit;' at the end. Do I need to do this separately with the Firefox::Application module?

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Re: Tab closing Mechanize::Firefox by ww (Archbishop) on Jul 12, 2013 at 22:48 UTC
Have you read the docs? Have you searched this site? ...the www? Have you tried to help yourself? This is a "gimme" post -- give me the answer so I don't have to hunt it up. That's a big - - in my book... especially since you've been counseled about this before. If I've misconstrued your question or the logic needed to answer it, I offer my apologies to all those electrons which were inconvenienced by the creation of this post.	[reply]
Re^2: Tab closing Mechanize::Firefox by PerlSufi (Friar) on Jul 14, 2013 at 17:41 UTC
Hi ww, I did not intend on this being a 'gimme' post, sorry if it seemed that way. I have read the documentation and implemented it in a way that I understood to be the correct method. I will investigate it further, thank you for your consideration	[reply]
Re^3: Tab closing Mechanize::Firefox by PerlSufi (Friar) on Jul 15, 2013 at 16:35 UTC
For those who wonder how to do it in the future, I implemented something similar to the following method: `my $site_tab = "my site"; my $ff = Firefox::Application->new(); $mech->get('https://mysite.com'); $ff->closeTab($site_tab);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]