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Cucumber+Selenium: even when I dismiss dialog and wait before next action, test fails

I'm using Java for my project and Page Object Model.
I have a test that is supposed to edit some content within a rich text editor, then click a button. But before the text editor is displayed, there is a dialog saying something like "what would you like to do?" and it has an "edit" button. So I did something like this:
Given user is on edit page
When dialog is displayed, user clicks on Edit
And user enters text in the editor
And user clicks on Save button
Then edited content is displayed
I have page objects for each page, with locators initialized by PageFactory as:
PageFactory.initElements(new AjaxElementLocatorFactory(driver, 20), pageObject);
and also locators and methods that interact with them are in the page objects like this:
#FindBy(css="span.saveLink span#editform-save a.buttonElement")
private WebElement saveLink;
public void saveEdits(){
saveLink.click();
}
The weird thing is that my test keeps failing when trying to click on the save link (last step before the assertion) with this error:
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Element <a role="button" tabindex="0" aria-disabled="false" href="/document/DOC1335" rel="nofollow" class="buttonElement">...</a> is not clickable at point (659, 563). Other element would receive the click: <div class="welcome-window dialog window-active window-setup" role="dialog">...</div>
I'm trying to find the <div class="welcome-window dialog window-active window-setup" role="dialog"> element within the browser inspector but it doesn't seem to be there (even when the dialog is on screen), but I still believe the dialog has something to do with this.
The weird thing is that the test only fails when clicking on the save button, so the previous steps of clicking on "Edit" in the dialog and entering text in the editor are successful.
I set it up to get a screenshot of failed tests, and sometimes it's still showing the dialog and sometimes it's showing the editor (dialog dismissed). So I added an explicit wait (other than the wait added when initializing objects):
public void saveEdits(){
new WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(saveLink)).click();
}
However, this didn't help. When I view the test running it seems to fail as soon as the dialog is dismissed, with no wait at all.
I'm not sure what could be going on here...

Primefaces JSF Opening a dialog multiple times slowly increases browser memory

I am using Primefaces 4.0, JSF 2.1.11
I have a page with a button that calls a prime-faces dialog.show() and a dialog appears after filling it out click done and it refreshes the page with the new item added into a prime-faces dataTable. Everytime I click the button to open the dialog and fill it out then hit done my browser memory goes up. In automation testing once the dialog has been opened 125 times (our users could do this up to 800 times in a row) the browser runs out of memory. In IE8 at 125 items the memory usage was at 880 MB.
So my question is how do I prevent this?
more Info: Beans are viewscoped, using Glassfish 3, this issue happens in all browsers but worse in older browsers.
Steps I have taken:
1. I am doing a .show() .hide() each time on the dialog.
2. I have tried to call javascript to empty out the divs in the DOM without any success.
I have looked on primefaces issues and I dont see any memory leak reports, also if I let the page sit open the memory doesn't go up, its only when I am using the page and opening and closing the dialog.
UPDATE:
Here is some code
this form is outside the other form
<h:form id="lineItemForm">
<p:dialog id="addLineItemDialogId" widgetVar="lineItemDialog" header="Line item" width="900" resizable="false"
modal="true" showEffect="fade">
...
...
<p:commandLink value="Done"
onclick="actionStarted($(this))"
action="#{lineItemView.save}"
update=":wizardForm:lineItemWizardPanel"
oncomplete="actionComplete(); saveLineItem(args);"/>
</h:form>
The saveLineItem(args) is a javascript method that calls .hide() after validation check
Here is the call to .show() it is in the form wizardForm.
<h:form id="wizardForm"/>
...
...
<p:commandLink value="Add Item"
action="#{lineItemView.loadLineItemFromRequest(requisitionView.request)}"
process="#this"
update=":lineItemForm"
oncomplete="lineItemDialog.show()"/>
UPDATE So It ended up being a red hering. I removed the backend method call and the memory leak went away. It looks likes its the dataTable causeing the issue, with ajax. Looked it up and it is fixed in Primefaces 5
http://www.beyondjava.net/blog/primefaces-5/

I'll take a guess although I am not sure. Try structuring the code like this:
<h:body>
<h:form id="mainForm">
...
...
...
...
</h:form>
<p:dialog>
<h:form id="dialogForm">
...
</h:form>
</p:dialog>
</h:body>
And on the button you use to show the dialog use update="dialogForm".
I believe that if you update the dialog itself or one of its parents, it can result in several dialogs hiding each other. That might explain the memory usage. Besides it is best practise to have the dialogs in the end outside of the main form.

jsf can I close browser tab from bean?

My application is managing software, and for user convenience, I want to allow them to open multiple tabs for changing parameters of more than one record at a time. But after finishing whatever they doing, the tabs stays open, and I got some complains about that. So basically my question is:
If there's any way to close browser tab that sends a request to method in my backing bean? for example:
JSF page:
<h:commandButton value="Public score"
action="#{assignmentBean.publicSelected()}">
</h:commandButton>
Bean method:
public void publicSelected() {
application.setAssignmentStatus(done);
dataAccess.mergeEntity(application);
}
is there any way to add something after merging command and close browser tab that activated method? Thanks for help
FULL CODE FOR SOLUTION I'm bad with mixing JS and JSF, so for any of you that are also bad at this I post full code solution using Tiago Vieira Dos Santos hint.
Now my button code looks like:
<h:commandButton value="Public score"
action="#{myBean.doThings}">
<f:ajax execute="#this" onevent="pop"/>
</h:commandButton>
plus on bottom of page I added code as follows:
<script type="text/javascript">
function pop(data){
if(data.status == "success"){
window.close();
}
}
</script>
now after method does what has to be done the window closes.

I think you can be use the javascript command Window.close() then you can put it on oncomplete tag or call in you managed bean using the FacesContext.
See more in this How to close current tab in a browser window?

Using an OutputLink and Javascript
<h:outputLink onclick="window.open('popup.faces', 'popupWindowName', 'dependent=yes, menubar=no, toolbar=no'); return false;" value="#">
<h:outputText value="open popup" />
</h:outputLink>
With this solution we got control over the appearance of the new browser window. And since there is no postback, there is no validation at all. This is the easiest way to open a new browser window when no model update is needed and no action has to be executed.
In order to implement a proper action handling we need to move the decision whether to open a new window to the action listener.
<h:commandLink actionListener="#{bean.openPopupClicked}" value="open popup" />
public void openPopupClicked(ActionEvent event) {
// code to open a new browser window goes here
}

Removing close button and back button

Can someone tell me how can I disable the browser's close button and back button. i.e user can not see the browser's close button or back button or can not click on the close button or back button of the browser. If user clicks nothing should happen or it should be completly hidden from user.
Solution can be in java or javascript or win32 apis..

We use this technique in-house for opening a browser window on top of all other apps so the user can use in-house hosted forms/webapps etc. Please remember to offer a close button.
NB: This only works for IE:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<script for="window" event="onload">
window.open('main.jsp',
'Your Name',
'width=800,height=600,resizable=0,status=0,toolbar=0');
<!-- Stops user from being able to press BackSpace -->
window.opener = window.top;
window.open('', '_self', '');
window.close();
</script>
</html>

Ajax not working right in JSF with a jquery slide

I have this application written in JSF 2.0 facelets and it has the following code that supposed to display some content in an area which a jQuery slide controls, meaning that you press a button that displays that area and press it again to hide it
<f:ajax render="messageID">
<h:form id="myform" styleClass="form1" >
<h:message id="messageID" for="signinemail" class="messageforlogin"/>
<h:panelGrid styleClass="loginpanel" columns="2" cellspacing="4">
<h:outputText value="Email: "/>
<h:inputText class="textboxes" size="20" id="signinemail"
value="#{signinBean.email}"
validatorMessage="Invalid Email, Try Again">
<f:validateRegex pattern="\w+([-+.']\w+)*#\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*"/>
</h:inputText>
As you can see there is an error message that should be displayed if the email is not typed correctly, and as i said before this area is controlled with a jquery.slidetoggle function and button that makes it a slide to input the stuff in,
The thing is when the use presses the submit button(not shown here) the slide freezes and no error message is displayed,When i remove the "ajax" the message is displayed but the slide disappears and you have to press the toggle button again to see the slide with the error messages, i have done this in the same page but with out a slide and it wokrs very fine.
Is there away to display the slide and the error messages on it ???

The jQuery script which is responsible for setting the slides should be re-executed when the JSF ajax request completes, simply because the ajax response changes/replaces elements in the HTML DOM tree with new elements retrieved from the server which in turn of course do not contain those jQuery-initialized event handlers anymore. The jQuery script is not auto-executed everytime when the ajax request completes, but only whenever you refresh the page.
You just need to re-invoke your jQuery function in the JSF ajax event callback handler as follows:
jsf.ajax.addOnEvent(function(data) {
if (data.status == "success") {
yourjQueryFunctionWhichAddsTheSlideEvents();
}
});
An alternative is to use OmniFaces' <o:onloadScript>.
<o:onloadScript>yourjQueryFunctionWhichAddsTheSlideEvents();</o:onloadScript>
This way you also don't need a $(document).ready() anymore.