Internet Explorer 8 64bit and Selenium Not working

Question

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

Answer 1

I had a similar problem on Vista and IE8 I would get the same error message

Couldn't open app window; is the pop-up blocker enabled?"

Running my remote control as Admin wasn't an option for me, and also a poor idea from a security perspective. So in the end I manage to solved this by changeing browser from "*ietha" to "*iexploreproxy" grid_configuration.yml

hub:
  port: 4444
    ...
    - name: "Internet Explorer 8 on Vista"
      browser: "*iexploreproxy"
    ...

Alternatively, you can change browser string from the code:

ISelenium selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*iexploreproxy", "http://www.google.com/");

Works like a charm. The only question remaing is if this somehow affects the outcome of the test cases. So far no, but I'll update this answer in case that would happen.