Is there a way to use watir to open a link in a new tab or window in firefox

I have a web application I am automating with watir. The application has a browsing page which shows thumbnails for a set of templates. Each thumbnail is开发者_开发问答 a link to the template. I need to open each template in a new tab or window and take a screen shot or print a pdf of the template to verify that it opens correctly and looks correct. Then close that tab or window and return to the template browser to open the next template. I need to do this on firefox/safari chrome and IE mac and windows.

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Why not open it in the same tab, take the sreenshot, then go back?

I haven't used Watir, only Selenium, but it looks like Watir has a back method as well. If not, you can probably store the URL of the page with the thumbnails and then open it directly by URL.

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You can read the url of the link, store it in an variable, open a new browser window and then with ie.goto(url) you can open the link in a new browser.