I'm starting to try out WWW::Mechanize::Chrome, and it looks pretty good!

However, I'm having trouble when following links that open a new window (window.open) or tab (target="_blank"). The new window/tab does open, but the original tab remains selected, and I can't figure out a way to select (or otherwise interact with) the new window/tab.

Any way to do this?

$mech->get('https://www.mscha.org/knmi/summer.cgi?month=-1');
$mech->follow_link(text=>'2020');    # opens a new window
my $png = $mech->content_as_png;

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$png now contains a screenshot of the original window, not the newly opened one. Any way to access the newly opened window?

In reply to WWW::Mechanize::Chrome - how to deal with new windows/tabs by mscha

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