Launch Firefox and Wait until it is Closed

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I want to start the Firefox web browser as process to visit a specific website, then wait until it is closed.

A special situation is that the brow

Answer 1

Here is a sample program that may somehow manages to demonstrate the capability of a selenium library to fulfill what you want. You need to download the selenium library and set it to your IDE first before you can run this program.

The program allows you to click a button. Then the firefox browser automatically opens and launch a website in a few seconds. Please wait while the website is loading. After that you may close the Firefox browser. The program shall also automatically close after 2 seconds.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.net.ConnectException;
import javax.swing.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchWindowException;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class AnotherTest extends JFrame {

    WebDriver driver;
    JLabel label;

    public AnotherTest() {
        super("Test");
        java.awt.Dimension screenSize = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        setBounds((screenSize.width - 400) / 2, (screenSize.height - 100) / 2, 400, 100);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        addWindowListener(new java.awt.event.WindowAdapter() {

            public void windowClosing(java.awt.event.WindowEvent evt) {
                quitApplication();
            }
        });

        JButton jButton1 = new javax.swing.JButton();

        label = new JLabel("");
        JPanel panel = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
        panel.add(jButton1);

        add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        add(label, BorderLayout.SOUTH);


        jButton1.setText("Open Microsoft");

        jButton1.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {

            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {

                label.setText("Loading browser. Please wait..");

                java.util.Timer t = new java.util.Timer();
                t.schedule(new java.util.TimerTask() {

                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        openBrowserAndWait();
                    }
                }, 10);
            }
        });

    }

    private void openBrowserAndWait() {
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        String baseUrl = "https://www.microsoft.com";
        driver.get(baseUrl);

        java.util.Timer monitorTimer = new java.util.Timer();
        monitorTimer.schedule(new java.util.TimerTask() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                while (true) {
                    checkDriver();
                    try {
                        Thread.sleep(2000);
                    } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                    }
                }
            }
        }, 10);
    }

    private void checkDriver() {
        if (driver == null) {
            return;
        }

        boolean shouldExit = false;

        try {
            label.setText(driver.getTitle());
        } catch (NoSuchWindowException e) {
            System.out.println("Browser has been closed. Exiting Program");
            shouldExit = true;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Browser has been closed. Exiting Program");
            shouldExit = true;
        }

        if (shouldExit) {
            this.quitApplication();
        }
    }

    private void quitApplication() {
        // attempt to close gracefully
        if (driver != null) {
            try {
                driver.quit();
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }
        }

        System.exit(0);
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            public void run() {
                new AnotherTest().setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}

Selenium is primarily used for testing automation of web applications. It can directly open browsers and read the html contents in it. See http://www.seleniumhq.org/ for additional information.