Selenium - Navigate to a different URL

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I'm working with Java/Selenium Web Driver.
This is the code to launch the browser and navigate to a URL.

I do some tasks and then I want to navigate to a different URL on the same browser that is already opened.
My guess was to use:

but the Eclipse IDE says that it does not use a parameter.

So what do I use to move to a new URL in the already open browser?

Thanks,

Kevin

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I have not used Selenium too much...maybe only a few hours, but I did find this which may help out:

www.seleniumhq.org wrote:Navigation: History and Location
Earlier, we covered navigating to a page using the “get” command ( driver.get("http://www.example.com") or driver.Url="http://www.example.com" in C#). As you’ve seen, WebDriver has a number of smaller, task-focused interfaces, and navigation is a useful task. Because loading a page is such a fundamental requirement, the method to do this lives on the main WebDriver interface, but it’s simply a synonym to:

driver.navigate().to("http://www.example.com");
To reiterate: “navigate().to()” and “get()” do exactly the same thing. One’s just a lot easier to type than the other!

The “navigate” interface also exposes the ability to move backwards and forwards in your browser’s history:

http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp#introducing-the-selenium-webdriver-api-by-example

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Kevin,
You call driver.get() again with the new URL. It uses the same browser automatically.

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Jeanne,
It amazes me that Iasked this five years ago. I see that I never thanked for the .get() answer.
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