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How do I close the browser window at the end of a Selenium test?
driver.close() and driver.quit() are two different methods for closing the browser session in Selenium WebDriver.
driver.close() - It closes the the browser window on which the focus is set.
driver....
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Chrome driver 2.28: "Chrome is being controlled by automated test software" notification. Can it be removed?
Just in case someone sees that post , I added :
cOptions.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Arrays.asList("enable-automation"));
And it caused the driver to crash when calling:
driver()....
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How to set browser locale with chromedriver (Python)
Not Working
I've tried the --lang=us option, as suggested, but also had no success using the code below. My webpages were still being downloaded with my default language (that's not en).
from ...
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How to disable Chrome save your password? (Selenium Java)
See the answer to "ChromeDriver user preferences ignored"
cOpt.AddUserProfilePreference("credentials_enable_service", false);
cOpt.AddUserProfilePreference("profile.password_manager_enabled", false);
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How does chromedriver.exe work on a core and fundamental level
Sadly none of the answers above are explaining what the real question here is. To understand how the chromedriver works fundamentally, you need to understand the root first.
What is WebDriver ...
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How to disable Chrome save your password? (Selenium Java)
In Java:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--start-maximized");
options.addArguments("--disable-web-security");
options.addArguments("--no-proxy-server");
Map<...
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Force a browser's visibility setting to true
It's possible to force this status with a Javascript injection via execute_script.
To simulate a visible document:
Object.defineProperty(document, 'visibilityState', {value: 'visible', writable: ...
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How to handle a ReCAPTCHA picture?
There is not any way to automate captcha submission. Actually, that's the reason captcha is used for. All you can do are:
ReCAPTCHA's documentation provides a set of keys that you can use for testing....
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How to modify HTTP request header in Selenium WebDriver with Java?
Here is the completed example that demonstrates how you can modify requests from your Selenium tests. To demonstrate one I have created a sample REST mock service via SoapUI that would return just a {"...
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Chrome driver 2.28: "Chrome is being controlled by automated test software" notification. Can it be removed?
Solution for Python 3:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-infobars")
browser = ...
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How do I enable ChromeDriver to use browser cache or local storage with selenium python
Yes, you are right, from Chrome capabilities documentations
Use custom profile (also called user data directory)
By default, ChromeDriver will create a new temporary profile for each session.
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Error trying to add chrome extension in nightwatchjs
It looks like you simply need to encode the file to a base64 string:
chromeOptions : {
extensions: [encode('./extension_1_5.crx')]
}
function encode(file) {
var stream = require('fs')....
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Try Assert Exceptions not failing test in python unittest or better way to loop through failures
I think you just need to re-raise the assertion error after printing out log messages:
try:
self.assertEqual(len(self.verificationErrors), 0) # no errors
except AssertionError as e:
for ...
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Selenium + ChromeDriver + Headless Chrome - failed to wait for extension background page to load
Oh blah!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45372066/is-it-possible-to-run-google-chrome-in-headless-mode-with-extensions/45372648#45372648
Firefox supports headless extensions but not google ...
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Chromedriver quit() method doesn't close all chrome.exe processes
Yeah, it can be a general issue as browsers (especially Chrome) don't always like closing their driver processes.
You can put the below in the onFinish all tests method which kills them:
String ...
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How do I close the browser window at the end of a Selenium test?
In Python, using selenium webdriver for Chrome, I needed to call stop_client() before close():
from selenium import webdriver
in setUp():
options = webdriver.chrome.options.Options()
options....
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Chromedriver not deleting scoped* dir in temp folder after test is complete
I have seen the same thing, our box that runs our automation has been running out of space. We found out that Chrome was the culprit. I don't have the answer to solve the root problem, but I have ...
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Can I automate multiple isolated chrome instances with Selenium ChromeDriver
I'm not sure how you tested your sessions issue but having two webdrivers in parallel is a normal case and there should not be issues with cookies or whatever. Below is my test written in Java but you ...
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Multithreading: chromedriver does not open url in second window
Driver d1 = new Driver(profile);
d1.start();
Driver d2 = new Driver(profile1);
d1.start();
Here you create Driver d2 but start d1.start() the second time then (you have started it two lines of code ...
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Selenium webdriver is getting log entries for the server event "500 internal server error" when using GetLog(LogType.Browser)
LogType.Browser is intended to show the javascript errors that you can observe in browser's JS-console. So if the log message appears in that console, then you'll see such the message there.
LogType....
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Disable physical mouse and keyboard in selenium
You should not be running tests on a machine used by user(s). Set up a dedicated computer or VM for testing and and use headless browser mode (more info here and here).
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How to autoupdate Chrome-driver in Selenium?
Yes, it can be done. You need to follow these steps, and you need to choose a tool in which you implement them.
Let's have a look at a few lines in Python, I'll outline the main flow and you might ...
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How to autoupdate Chrome-driver in Selenium?
Try using webdriver-manager from npm:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/webdriver-manager
And call webdriver-manager update using batch file from your java, python or what ever tool .
To create batch ...
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How to disable Chrome save your password? (Selenium Java)
What Flavio Barisi said, with the addition of the capabilities you pass to your driver.
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--start-maximized");
Map<String, Object&...
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Chrome driver 2.28: "Chrome is being controlled by automated test software" notification. Can it be removed?
You can use
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
Also, it's better to use Collections....
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Selenium send_keys on chromium confused by forward slashes
This might be because of race conditions in asynchronous test code.
It is always better to escape non-alphanumerical characters.
If that doesn't work you could always put delays/timeouts between ...
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Issue executing Automation with Selenium/Nosetest set ups
When your Python Selenium bindings locate the chromedriver executable and try to execute it, they are unable to do so because of an issue with permissions.
Most likely, your chromedriver executable ...
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Chrome argument "--disable-infobars" does not work with Chrome 65
Disable-infobars flag has been removed per this merged commit below.
for more details check here:
1. chromium.googlesource.com
2. chromium-review.googlesource.com
This flag is no longer needed by ...
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Need to work on Chrome and IE concurrently in Selenium; Any possible workaround?
In your code you should instantiate two drivers. One instance for Chrome and the second one for IE. Now you can operate with both the browsers. Below is the example in Java:
public static void main(...
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How to open two separate tabs in same google chrome window using webdriver and java?
use the below code
driver.get(enter the url);
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open()");
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open()");
ArrayList<String> tabs = ...
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