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 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.

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.

Answer 2

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 3

I was experiencing the same problem. I ran the Selenium RC server as an administrator and everything worked fine.