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Customize the browser icon when running a Selenium session?

I have some Selenium sessions where, if certain events occurs, I spawn a new browser and leave the old one as is so I later on can manually intervene. The problem is that it is hard to distinguish between such a deserted browser session and the one that is currently running.
Ideally I would like to add a badge to the browser icon that is displayed in the application switcher (cmd-tab) and the dock (but other solutions/suggestions are also welcome, like add something to the name of the browser). Is that possible?
Using Java on a Mac. A solution can be platform specific.

You can use below execute_script (This python code use java equalent)
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(
"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9943771/adding-a-favicon-to-a-static-html-page")
head = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("head")
link = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('link[rel="shortcut icon"]')
driver.execute_script('''var link = document.createElement("link");
link.setAttribute("rel", "icon");
link.setAttribute("type", "image/png");
link.setAttribute("href", "https://i.stack.imgur.com/uOtHF.png?s=64&g=1");
arguments[1].remove();
arguments[0].appendChild(link);
''',head,link)
time.sleep(70000)
you can use link element on head tag to add favicon. THe above code is an exaple where stackoverflow site will showup with my avatar
Output:
You should find the current link the website uses, remove it and replace it with your new link as shown in the code

Convert Android view to PDF of A4 size

I have an android resume building application. I want to generate a PDF of size A4 from my view. Here's how my layout looks like - At the top I have a Top App Bar, and the whole view in encapsulated in drawer. The main part which contains user's details is encapsulated in nestedScrollView, which contains multiple LinearLayout and TextView. In this screenshot below, I have populated it with mock data, but in actuality, I am fetching data from the Firebase Realtime Database and displaying it on the UI.
I tried to understand iTextPdf solution and multiple question of similar type that has been asked here, but I couldn't find something solid. Please help me out, it would be of great help.
Also, please don't close this question by giving a reason that the question doesn't contain any code. It doesn't because I don't have any. I am trying to solve this problem from scratch. I have tried to describe my problem as much as I could.

try this:
create a WebView and copy the text of your edittext in it:
webview.loadData(youredittext.gettext().tostring, "text/html", "UTF-8");
and convert webview to pdf by below function:
private void createWebPrintJob(WebView webView) {
PrintManager printManager = (PrintManager) this
.getSystemService(Context.PRINT_SERVICE);
PrintDocumentAdapter printAdapter =
webView.createPrintDocumentAdapter();
String jobName = getString(R.string.app_name) + " Print Test";
if (printManager != null) {
printManager.print(jobName, printAdapter,
new PrintAttributes.Builder().build());
}
}
after that user can select page size for example A4

There are a lot of libraries that convert layouts to PDF, but let's opt for popular one so we could find answers if we're stuck.
The libraries I listed works like so : They take screenshot of your layout as bitmap image and convert it to pdf.
- 1st solution: iTextPDF https://github.com/itext/itext7 (New Version).
check this detailed tutorial which treates also the case of taking screenshot of a scrollview https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/989236/How-to-Convert-Android-View-to-PDF-2
and this stackoverflow answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/29731275/12802591
- 2nd solution: PdfMyXML library https://github.com/HendrixString/Android-PdfMyXml just follow the steps in the documentation.
They may be other solutions, but these are the popular ones.
Let Me know if it works for you and also if you're stuck. Thank you!

What command do I use to fix this problem?

My main goal is to create a program that can automate an android app to do everything you would with your fingers.
I wrote this line of code so that if that switch is turned ON, the code will switch it OFF.
driver.findElement(By.id("com.offerup:id/shipping_checkbox")).click();
But when I run my code again, that switch is now OFF by default.
I need a command that leaves the switch alone if it is already OFF.
Does anyone know what command to use?

You need to check whether the switch is ON or not. You could achieve this using the following code:
if(driver.findElement(By.id("com.offerup:id/shipping_checkbox")).isSelected()){
driver.findElement(By.id("com.offerup:id/shipping_checkbox")).click();
}
Updated:
As mentioned by Muzammil, isSelected() is not working as expected. Alternatively, you could use the checked attribute:
MobileElement shippingCheckbox= driver.findElement(By.id("com.offerup:id/shipping_checkbox"));
if(shippingCheckbox.getAttribute("checked").equalsIgnoreCase("true")){
shippingCheckbox.click();
}

There are 2 ways to check slider is on or off.
This is Node details of Slider.
Option-1: By using text
Here we will click only if slider is On.
MobileElement sliderElement=driver.findElement(By.id("com.offerup:id/shipping_checkbox"));
String sliderStatus = sliderElement.getText();
if (sliderStatus.equalsIgnoreCase("On")) {
sliderElement.click();
}
Option-2: By using Attribute
Here we will click only if slider is On.
MobileElement sliderElement=driver.findElement(By.id("com.offerup:id/shipping_checkbox"));
String sliderStatus=sliderElement.getAttribute("checked");
if (sliderStatus.equalsIgnoreCase("true")) {
sliderElement.click();
}
}

Edit: I made a mistake in reading this, and missed that it was an Android app, so Javascript is likely unavailable. This comment will only help someone with the same issue on web browser testing, or any situation where Javascript can be executed on the application.
Additional possibility for checking. Not that it is superior to other options.
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.Extensions;
string selector = "com.offerup:id/shipping_checkbox";
if(driver.ExecuteJavascript<bool>($"return document.getElementById('{selector}').checked")) {
driver.findElement(By.id($"{selector}")).click();
}

Console. Write text with "link" to class/line

Whenever you display a stack trace, you can get a "url-like" text which if you click it opens the appropriate class at the appropriate line.
Is there a possibility to output a text in a way that the console recognizes it and make it clickable like that?

But how would you format the output so it would recognize it as a "link" ?
You can't and you don't.
AndroidStudio supports that feature. You just need to call
exception.printStackTrace() and you should be able to click it in the console tab of IDE.
You will see something like
java.lang.Exception
at whatever.Test.main(Test.java:22)
The text inside the bracket will be highlighted and you can click it.

Based on #JEeemy's answer I managed to do this
public static void printLinkToThisLine() {
System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[3]);
}
I works for me ...

I don't know if you're using Eclipse, but the Eclipse console parses based on a pattern: FileName.java:lineNumber.
MyFile.java:3
Would link you to the 3rd line of whatever class you specified as MyFile.
You could use:
.getClass().getName()
to the the name of the file programmatically.

Open and maximise a browser window in OATS Java (not javascript)

I am a tester and just installed oracle application test suite to use testing eBus apps
Anyway the only language it supports for coding test scripts (I don't want to use the recorder for a number of reasons). The problem I am having is that everything I search or google is javascript not java (even googling with -script I still ended up looking at javascript. This just gets rejected by the oats editor
The only other examples I have seen, appear to be defining a variable then setting the value of that variable as the window they want to maximize. Aside from the fact that my java skills are not up to doing that - I do not need to do this for a newly opened browser window do I? (The assumption is that this will be the only browser window open (ie test is executed with browser closed)
Is there any easy way to do this?
Below is the very simple initiate of the browser which is generated from a recording plus part of the first step which loads the url the test starts at: (I realize the first step is not complete below -I didn't paste it all, just enough to hopefully allow someone to show me what I need to edit to force the browser to load maximized, or maximize it immediately after loading?
public void initialize() throws Exception {
browser.launch();
}
/**
* Add code to be executed each iteration for this virtual user.
*/
public void run() throws Exception {
beginStep("[1] Login (/RF.jsp)", 0);
{
web
.window(2,
"/web:window[#index='0' or #title='about:blank']")
.navigate(
"http://somepageiwantolaunch");
web.window(4, "/web:window[#index='0' or #title='Login']")
.waitForPage(null);

I am not sure whether you already got the answer for this.. if not this code should help you
browser.launch();
DOMBrowser currentExecutionBrowser = web.window("/web:window[#index='0' or #index='1']");
currentExecutionBrowser.maximize();
Let me know if this helps!

There is a function in the Oracle Functional Tester API Reference which has a build in function called object.WindowState It says you can get or set using this function and it has values
0 - Normal, 1- minimized and 2-maximised.
Only issue is that these examples look more like VB than Javascript but presumably there is a similar function built into to the Oracle libraries for Java.
I did a quick search for Oracle Openscript API and came up with this link which asks for the same thing. They suggest using Help->Search from within the openscript application and then searching for "openscript API" which should provide a list of the functions available.
Hope that helps.

To Maximize browser in OATS, follow the below code
Open script ha in built methods which helps coding easy
browser.launch();
web.window(12, "/web:window[#index='0' or #title='about:blank']").navigate("http://www.google.com/");
web.window(12, "/web:window[#index='0' or #title='about:blank']").maximize();
for more OATS Tips/Tricks follow here
http://www.testinghive.com/category/oracle-application-testing-suite-tips

If it is the only browser window open, you can use the below code. It must be used with caution since the code maximizes any window that is open above the browser window.
try {
Robot a = new Robot();
a.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
a.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_SPACE);
a.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_SPACE);
a.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
a.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_X);
a.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_X);
} catch (AWTException e) {
}