# Plotly browser renderer: keep focus in terminal: reuse plot tab?

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-browser-renderer-keep-focus-in-terminal-reuse-plot-tab/33476>\
**Category:** 📊 Plotly Python\
**Created:** [January 10, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-browser-renderer-keep-focus-in-terminal-reuse-plot-tab/33476 "2020-01-10T23:21:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![scotto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@scotto](https://community.plotly.com/u/scotto)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-browser-renderer-keep-focus-in-terminal-reuse-plot-tab/33476/1 "2020-01-10T23:21:58Z")

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When I use the ‘browser’ renderer go generate a plot (running python in a terminal), plotly creates a new browser tab and draws my plot there.

I often don’t want to create a new tab; I just want to redraw the plot in the same tab. How do I set up plotly so that it opens a new plotly browser tab only if there isn’t one already in the browser?