I don't understand the purpose of doing this. But here is what you could do: Simulate the pressing of CTRL+T which opens a new browser tab and then send a keystroke CTRL+F4 to close it. It works in Windows from JScript using Chrome-compatible web browser. Should work from Perl as well.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Send+keystroke+from+Perl&t=h_&ia=web

https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=566432

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

In reply to Re: Module to open and close browser tabs by harangzsolt33
in thread Module to open and close browser tabs by justin423

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