Newer versions of webdriver (like 1039) seems to not only throw NoSuchElementException but StaleElementReferenceException as well.

A simple fix is to catch StaleElementReferenceException as well in the ElementProbe loop:

public void probe() { foundElement = null; try { foundElement = driver.findElement(); probe(foundElement); } catch (NoSuchElementException e) { // try next time } catch (StaleElementReferenceException e){ // try next time } }

Greetings Hopalong and Seb

Gah! Bloody unchecked exceptions!

Thanks. I've committed a fix.