I'm new in Selenium. I'm using FirefoxDriver(). So, basically when i run my program. It opens an external firefox browser, So when i close that firefox browser. my program terminates and says Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.
But How to make my program run, After closing browser it should suppose to run and show on console program? Is that possible? Please let me know.
Surely, help would be appreciated!
Try WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();.
This does not open any external browser.
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Can anyone please clarify my query? My chrome browser recently got updated to the latest version 87.0.4280.88.
Once its got updated, "WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();" is launching two browser instances.
One browser seems empty, with "data:," as a URL.
In another browser, selenium is running.
Can anyone please help us to resolve this issue by stopping another empty browser from launching?
I hereby added the screenshots for reference.
I am trying to open chrome, close it and then open it again using the same session.
Is a thing like this even possible? I've looked through the internet/stackoverflow and tried using driver.Close(); but with no luck.
Anybody has some experience with this and mind helping me?
thanks
In Selenium Webdriver, a browser session can be closed using two webdriver commands: close() and quit(). The situations in which they are used are briefly explained below:
close() is a webdriver command which closes the browser window which is currently in focus.
During the automation process, if there are more than one browser window opened, then the close() command will close only the current browser window which is having focus at that time. The remaining browser windows will not be closed. The following code can be used to close the current browser window:
driver.close() //where, ‘driver’ is the Webdriver object.
quit() is a webdriver command which calls the driver.dispose method, which in turn closes all the browser windows and terminates the WebDriver session.
If we do not use quit() at the end of program, the WebDriver session will not be closed properly and the files will not be cleared off memory. This may result in memory leak errors.
The following code can be used to close all the browser windows:
driver.quit() //where, ‘driver’ is the Webdriver object.
If the Automation process opens only a single browser window, the close() and quit() commands work in the same way. Both will differ in their functionality when there are more than one browser window opened during Automation.
Source: Reference link
I am dealing with a small problem. I am working on automating few tasks in a web application,i can open the webpage,enter the login,click login,BUT then it starts to act strange. If i click on the login manualy it logs in without a problem.
But if i try to do it via selenium (JAVA jdk1.7.0_75,selenium-java-2.53.1,running on IEDriverServer_Win32_3.4.0) the page opens with error An error has occured.
java.lang.NullPointerException. and with "Window language could not be determined "
The page is on the intranet. I guess the application has a problem with the Webdriver (everything works if i try to automate the task using the VBS).
Dont you know any "workaround" for that?
(I can use only IE,because chrome no longer supports NPAPI so the application does not work in chrome)
InternetExplorerDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.get("*the webpage*");
driver.findElementByName("userid").sendKeys("*login*");
driver.findElementByName("password").clear();
driver.findElementByName("password").sendKeys("*password*");
driver.findElementByName("ctr").sendKeys("*number*");
driver.findElementByName("menuType").click();
driver.findElementByLinkText("OK").click();
I think the problem is somewhere in the settings,because as i mentioned,if o open the browser manualy and login,it works,no errors and i get into the app.
But the webdriver "browser" has somehow different settings (i think) so it does not work. Problem is,that we have restricted access to the settings of browser,so i cant do much about that.
Thank you very much for any suggestions/answers/tips!!
Kind Regards,
Jerry Woodburn
I'm developing a command line tool and at some point it redirects the user to the default web browser. I use the following code for that
if(Desktop.isDesktopSupported()){
Desktop.getDesktop().browse(new URI("http://www.example.com"));
}
The browser opens without any problem but there are some messages printed on the console while this is up. stuff like
[6620:6620:0622/180058:ERROR:browser_window_gtk.cc(1082)] Not implemented reached in virtual void BrowserWindowGtk::WebContentsFocused(content::WebContents*)
or
Created new window in existing browser session.
Is there a way to stop printing these kind of messages. (as it is a command line application it does not look good). Is there any other way to open a browser?
Thanks in advance
This looks like this is printed by the browser on startup. These GTK log messages aren't uncommon.
You can start the browser directly from the console to verify this.
EDIT:
As starting the browser is handed off to an operating system specific method, there's not much control over it.
To have better control you can try to launch the browser directly:
launch the process Launch JVM process from a Java application use Runtime.exec?
for linux (more or less cross-distribution): Linux: command to open URL in default browser
for windows: Launching a website via windows commandline
You can use Desktop.browse if the other methods fail.
I am using
java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop().browse(uri);
to show my users a generated html file. All is fine if the browser (firefox 3.5.7; linux) is started before I make the call. But if the browser start is triggered from the getDesktop().browse call then the java application will not exit until the browser closes.
How can I avoid this behaviour? Is this known under windows/macOsx too?
(If I then force the exit of the java application the browser will close too and sometime even crash!?)
The reason the browser exists is because the browser is launched as a dependent process...so when the first process shuts down, all its dependent processes are shut down with it. But in the case when you start the browser first, it already has a different process ID that isn't affected by your application. I think the only way to avoid this behavior is to use a different technique (perhaps Runtime.exec()?) to launch the browser in a way that registers it as a non-dependent process.
The project Browser Launcher (http://browserlaunch2.sourceforge.net/) can be the solution for your problem. You can launch a browser from your code like this:
String url = "http://....";
BrowserLauncher() launcher = new edu.stanford.ejalbert.BrowserLauncher();
launcher.openURLinBrowser(url);