I am unable to launch the Edge Chromium in headless mode using the Java and Selenium 3 (3.141.59). I am aware that selenium 3 does not possess much capabilities with current stable version but we don't want to invest in Alpha version of Selenium.
Selenium 4 is not backward compatible, moving to Selenium 4 means making a lot of changes and removing lot of legacy code.
With that said, my question is, is there any solution to handle this problem ?
I found that you can launch the Edge Chromium browser in headless mode with Selenium 3 but you need to add a reference to the Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge package
I found examples to reference the Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge package in .Net, Python, and JS.
Use Selenium 3
Unfortunately, I did not get any way to add a reference to the Selenium Tools for Microsoft Edge package in JAVA.
So for the JAVA project, you still need to use Selenium 4 Alpha version.
Related
One of the ways WebDriver identifies itself as a bot to external websites is by setting the webdriver-active flag to true.
A user on SO suggested that it is possible modify Chrome Driver source code to remove all bot-identifying attributes (see this and this response).
Is it possible to achieve a similar outcome w/ Firefox by modifying the source code of Geckodriver, Firefox WebDriver or perhaps both? I'm asking because there is currently no way to conceal WebDriver using Firefox Options without source code modification.
If we can somehow remove bot identifying features from the source code, we can prevent WebDriver from being identified as a bot without needing to bundle TOR with Firefox.
While there's no getting around the fact that Selenium (in its present state) identifies itself, surely we can modify source code to remove all identification similar to how it's achieved in Chrome Driver?
In the discussion Can a website detect when you are using Selenium with chromedriver? as suggested by different users to open the ChromeDriver in a Hex Editor and edit the document variables replacing the cdc_ and $wdc_ string might be possible, but achiving the same with GeckoDriver may not be possible.
Moreover, the commands like execute_cdp_cmd() and Python libraries like selenium-stealth may not be currently supported by GeckoDriver.
The GeckoDriver source code can be easily downloaded from mozilla / geckodriver page both in zip and tar.gz format. If you are on windows system you can unzip the downloaded file and find the the source code of different modules in the ...\geckodriver-0.30.0\src directory:
Additionally, geckodriver is made available under the Mozilla Public License. GeckoDriver source code can also be found in mozilla-central under testing/geckodriver.
WebDriver Specifications
Now as per WebDriver W3C Editor's Draft:
The webdriver-active flag is set to true when the user agent is under remote control. It is initially false.
So there can be two possible ways to keep webdriver flag as false as:
Remove the readonly attribute, so can be edited runtime. (as discussed in this answer)
Strangle the WebDriver from emitting the signals that the user agent is under remote control.
To me the second option looks pretty much viable as the most frequently updated tier is the second tier (Selenium WebDriver.dll and WebDriver.Support.dll modules). Since App Studio uses C# and .Net version 4.0 (before Selenium 4.1.0 (November 22, 2021)) to communicate with Selenium, you need to download the .Net 4.0 version of the Selenium modules. The current stable version being 4.1.0. Once the zip file is downloaded, extract the content to a folder and navigate to the net40 subfolder.
Now, you can copy the WebDriver.dll and WebDriver.Support.dll files to the bin folder of the App Studio installation. e.g, C:\ibi\AppStudio82\bin and make the required changes.
As an alternative, you can also download the NuGet, copy the .Net 4.0 content of the NuGet package into the bin folder of the App Studio installation and make the required changes.
tl; dr
Building geckodriver
Testing geckodriver
We are using selenium for web based applications and LeanFT for desktop & Citrix apps (eg: PowerBuilder, Terminal emulator) using Java
Using LeanFT or selenium exclusively causes no issues (we use LeanFT reporter and selenium TakesScreenshot) but the problem is, in one flow with screenshot capture, when we are switching context between LeanFT and Selenium.
What we have tried so far:
Tried switching to LeanFT screen capture if selenium getDriver returns null but this doesn’t, it fails if we start webDriver first
In our framework screenshot are taken part of onTestPass, onTestFail so end users doesn’t have to explicitly call getScreenshot.
Any idea what we could leverage to notify method to capture screen based on LeanFT or selenium?
The goal is to create a single report, by using both the results from selenium and the ones from LeanFT
Note: We don’t want to use LeanFT for everything (due to reusability of existing scripts) and we should use LeanFT for non web related systems
I want to detect Edge browser(windows 10) using UserAgentFamily enum class(package net.sf.uadetector). There is no option related to Edge broswer.
Such as UserAgentFamily.IE and UserAgentFamily. SAFARI for detecting IE and safari browser. How will I detect edge broswer using UserFamily.
Use another library that has the features you want. For example, user-agent-utils.
If you really want to use the library you are using now, you can try to build a newer version, but it seems it has some bugs relating Edge
My corporate web application is using Java applet to access users file system. There is no way for us to replace it with anything else for now.
How do I enable Java in Microsoft Edge?
As other folks have mentioned, Java, ActiveX, Silverlight, Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) and other plugins are not supported in Microsoft Edge. Most modern browsers are moving away from plugins and toward standard HTML5 controls and technologies.
If you must continue to use the Java plugin in a corporate web app, consider adding the site to an Enterprise Mode site list. This will automatically prompt the user to open in IE.
You cannot open Java Applets (nor any other NPAPI plugin) in Microsoft Edge - they aren't supported and won't be added in the future.
Further you should be aware that in the next release of Google Chrome (v45 - due September 2015) NPAPI plugins will also no longer be supported.
Work-arounds
There are a couple of things that you can do:
Use Internet Explorer 11
You will find that in Windows 10 you will already have Internet Explorer 11 installed. IE 11 continues to support NPAPI (incl Java Applets).
IE11 is squirrelled away (c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe). Just pin this exe to your task bar for easy access.
Use FireFox
You can also install and use a Firefox 32-bit Extended Support Release in Win10. Firefox have disabled NPAPI by default, but this can be overridden. This will only be supported until early 2018.
Edge has dropped all support for plugins. This means that Java, ActiveX, Silverlight, and other plugins are no longer supported. For this reason Microsoft has included Internet Explorer 11, which does support these plugins, with non-mobile versions of Windows 10. If you are running Windows 10 and need plugin support Edge is not an option, but IE 11 is.
About this, java declares that on Windows 10, Edge browser does not support plugins, so it will NOT run java.
(see https://www.java.com/it/download/win10.jsp --> only visible with edge in win10)
It also reports a notice: java is not officially supported yet in Windows 10.
(see https://www.java.com/it/download/faq/win10_faq.xml)
IE11 do accept Java according to the link below :
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/install-java#ie=ie-11
And firefox also intended to remove NPAPI by the end of 2016 according to :
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/
That Java Applets are not working in modern browsers is known but there is a quick workaround which is activate the Microsoft Compatibility Mode. This mode can be activated in your Edge browser and you can select to open the pages on the IE compatibility mode, and in this fashion the ActivX and Java and so works as in IE11.
M Edge in IE mode supports the following Internet Explorer functionality:
All document modes and enterprise modes
ActiveX controls (such as Java or Silverlight)
As refs:
https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RWEHMs
I hope you are doing well.
You can download add edge extension on MS edge browser that will allow you to run java applet.
You can try the extension called : CheerpJ Applet Runner
I'm using Selenium WebDriver with Java. I want to use Safari browser. Does Selenium WebDriver support Safari?
Experimental support of Safari was added in Selenium recently. See https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/SafariDriver
The SafariDriver is still experimental and relies on a browser plugin using WebSockets to communicate to the browser. It's a great step and it's something that many have been waiting for.
However, if you want something a bit more stable, Darrel Grainger has a good post on how to instantiate a Webdriver object utilizing the Selenium RC (a.k.a Selenium 1) API.
It's probably the best way to get Safari testing going right now.
Refer latest post here by Apple:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/testing_with_webdriver_in_safari
Yes, webdriver will support Safari. following instruction https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/SafariDriver
As of Safari 10, there is now a native support for WebDriver API. More info here https://webkit.org/blog/6900/webdriver-support-in-safari-10/
You can see the Selenium Java API doc:
http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/index.html
There are detail of Class SafariDriver
All these answers were out of date for me. I had to track down and find the latest ... it's located here :
http://elementalselenium.com/tips/69-safari
Download for the driver is
http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/
Short and precise answer is YES.
Selenium 3 supports Safari 12 in a well mannered way. It's pretty much stable for automation testing.
I am using Selenium v3.141.59 with Safari v12.1.2 flawlessly.
With Selenium 3, you don't need to download/install SafariDriver explicitly; instead you just need to enable the built in SafariDriver comes with MacOS.
Web driver does support safari with the help of crome driver.
please see this
http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html#selenium-webdriver-s-drivers
Yes it does support Safari but, it is not much stable as of now!
Prerequisite: Install Safari on Windows
Go to http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/
Scroll down -> Go to the section "SafariDriver" and download "SafariDriver.safariextz"
Double click on "SafariDriver.safariextz" (previously downloaded)
Safari would open with a pop up containing "Install" button -> Click Install button
Now go to Preferences of Safari and you would see WebDriver (in my case WebDriver 2.48.0) is installed (Enable WebDriver checkbox is checked))
Write the WebDriver Java code as below:
WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver();
driver.get("https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/mastering-selenium-testing-tools-video");
No. It does not support Safari 2 or 3 with the WebDriver according to the compatibility page.