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Regression: unable to interact with IE8 on win 7 64-bit #1374

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lukeis opened this issue Mar 2, 2016 · 4 comments
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Regression: unable to interact with IE8 on win 7 64-bit #1374

lukeis opened this issue Mar 2, 2016 · 4 comments

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 1374

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Try to execute following simple code:

WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
try {
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        System.out.println("Opening web page...");
        // Go to the Google Suggest home page
        driver.get("https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en");
        System.out.println("finding query box...");
        // Enter the query string "Cheese"
        WebElement query = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
        System.out.println("typing cheese...");
        query.sendKeys("Cheese");
} catch(Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
        System.out.println("closing browser");
        driver.close();
}

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Browser opens and Cheese typed in the search box.  
But instead, browser (IE8 64-bit) opens to google but search box element (named 'q')
is not found.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Selenium beta2 running on Windows 7 64-bit.  

Please provide any additional information below.

C:\>java -jar Desktop\selenium.jar selenium.GoogleSuggest
Opening web page...
finding query box...
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unable to find element with name == q (WARNING:
The server d
id not provide any stacktrace information)
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version:
'1.6.0_18'
Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:
39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorIm
pl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:131)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:105)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:410)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:193)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByName(RemoteWebDriver.java:242)
        at org.openqa.selenium.By$4.findElement(By.java:148)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:185)
        at selenium.GoogleSuggest.main(GoogleSuggest.java:25)

closing browser
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unable to get browser
(WARNING: T
he server did not provide any stacktrace information)
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version:
'1.6.0_18'
Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:
39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorIm
pl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:131)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:105)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:410)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:414)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.close(RemoteWebDriver.java:280)
        at selenium.GoogleSuggest.main(GoogleSuggest.java:53)

Reported by gketan on 2011-03-08 05:36:35

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016

This works with no issues in my environment. Please check your Protected Mode settings
(Tools > Internet Options > Security tab). The value should be set to the same value
(either on or off) for all zones.

Reported by james.h.evans.jr on 2011-03-08 16:31:32

  • Status changed: NeedsClarification

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016

Thanks for quick respond...
The Protected Mode settings were NOT same for all zone.  Once I set then all to be
Protected Mode, it worked like a charm.  It also seemed faster then older builds.

I think we can close this bug, since having Protected Mode setting same for all zones
seems like a requirement.

Reported by gketan on 2011-03-08 19:30:36

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016

Reported by dawagner on 2011-03-08 22:17:21

  • Status changed: Invalid

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 18:12:03

  • Labels added: Restrict-AddIssueComment-Commit

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