Can't run Selenium via Protractor on Firefox after update to Angular 2

Question

After updating Angular JS 1.4.x to Angular 2, Selenium tests can\'t run anymore via grunt-protractor-runner on Firefox. As soon as AngularJS is loaded, the

Answer 1

See related tickets:

• https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/2784
• https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/1416

Based on the last comment on the selenium ticket:

Angular 2 is patching EventTarget.prototype, so they are responsible for any bugs caused by their changes.

Answer 2

To isolate the problem I installed the sample Angular 2 Go with Protractor ! and got exactly the same error (as in my first comment) after I changed browserName: 'chrome' to firefox.

Thus I created a new issue on Protractors github page.