I am using helium library for web scraping dynamic websites I found it much faster to use tabs than using many windows yet some websites when I open them in a new tab they show some ads and I could not find a way to close them. That made me look for a lot of JS codes, which I do not understand, and most of the times they are not working when executed using helium library in python even though they work fine in the Console of Google Chrome.
However, the code should be running headless and I am doing all of this only for testing and here is my main question Does it matter if used new tab or new window if I am going to use headless browser in python helium is it going to be faster just like what happens when it runs normal or since it is headless it makes no difference ?
not to forget to mention that it is way easier for me to work with many windows since I won't have to use JS codes.
driver.execute_script('''$x('xpath')[0].remove();''')
driver.execute_script('''$x('xpath')[0].click();''')
$x('xpath')[0].remove();
$x('xpath')[0].click();
selenium.common.exceptions.JavascriptException: Message: javascript error: $x is not defined
they both work just fine in Google Chrome Console but for some reason, I can not execute them python helium.
I tried using to give more time using time.sleep(5) to load the page but it did not work
not to mention that I tried using the click() method from helium it gives me a LookupError()
I found a way to test it for myself it might not be accurate but the results gave me a clear winner I used the windows task manager to see the percentage of CPU usage in all the cases when running headless tabs were faster and used way less CPU than new windows