Internet Explorer 8 64bit and Selenium Not working

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I am trying to get selenium tests to run. Yet every time I try to run a tests that should run IE I get a error on line 863 of htmlutils.js It says that I should disable my popup blocker. The thing is I went to IE tools-> turn of popup block.

So it is disabled and I get this error.

Is there something else I need to disable. I actually don't even know what version of Internet explorer it is running since I am using Windows 7 Pro 64bit version. So when I do use IE I use 64bit version but I am under the understanding if the site or something like that does not support 64bit it goes to 32bit.

So not sure what I need to do it to make it work.

This is the lines where it does

function openSeparateApplicationWindow(url, suppressMozillaWarning) {
    // resize the Selenium window itself
    window.resizeTo(1200, 500);
    window.moveTo(window.screenX, 0);

    var appWindow = window.open(url + '?start=true', 'selenium_main_app_window');
    if (appWindow == null) {
        var errorMessage = "Couldn't open app window; is the pop-up blocker enabled?"
        LOG.error(errorMessage);
        throw new Error("Couldn't open app window; is the pop-up blocker enabled?");
    }

Where is this log.error message stored? Maybe I can post that too.

selenium windows-7 64-bit windows
8 Answers

I had the same problem on Windows 7 64bit IE8. The first step was to disable the IE popup blocker. Then, I got a message in the status bar saying that "Pop-ups were blocked on this page. Press the 'Ctrl' key to allow the pop-ups".

It turns out that the Google Toolbar was providing this feature. Disabling it solved the problem. View > Toolbars > Google to toggle.

John.

user_2470030

If you happen to be doing this from JavaScriptMVC, there is a reference you need to change in \jmvc\plugins\test\drivers\selenium.js:

1) Change iexplore to iexploreproxy and you should get better results:

    msie : (/iexploreproxy/i).test(browserStartCommand),

2) At this point, you'll find that you still get the popup error, but a separate instance of IE has started. Leave that IE window open and restart the tests, but not Selenium.

3) Next, the windows should show up in the right place, but IE gives the annoying block active content warning. Allow the content to run and restart the tests, but not Selenium itself.

This is super clunky, but it at least gets you past that part. If I find more methodical ways to do these things I'll update as needed.

user_403520

You can start the test when you disable the Security mode of Internet. Don´t know the correct name for it, but in dutch it is beveiligde modus. I tried modifiing the security settings to dublicate this security mode, but couldn´t find the correct setting for it. It must therefor block more then you can set manually.

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