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 ran into this on Windows 7 64bit.

My solution was:

1. Disable popup block. - Select "Tools/Popup Blocker/Turn off pop-up blocker"

2. Disable IE protected mode. - Untick "Tools/Internet Options/Security/Enable protected mode"

It'd be better just to disable protected modes for known trusted hosts/addresses. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

Answer 2

I have had the same problem and have found another solution which works for me. Just use the *iexploreproxy setting in the browserString.

I used:

selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*iexploreproxy C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplorer.exe", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/");

I hope that works for others too :)

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

I, too, am experiencing this very problem on a Windows 7 64bit box, trying to run Selenium on it to test and ASP .Net MVC application, written in C#.

I am still trying to work out the answer for myself, but I thought I'd post here to tell you of a little progress I have made in getting something to work, albeit in Firefox instead of IE.

Here's the line I changed:

selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome C:/Program Files (x86)/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/");

I would ideally like for this to work in Internet Explorer 8, but if for the moment, I can begin getting tests working and later change over to use IE again, then great.

Hope this helps for your problem with it all.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.