Selenium ie driver cannot switch to window popup

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Trying to use the ieDriver.switchTo().window(windowHandle) method to switch to a popup window but my test script stops and does not proceed.

When I close the window manually i get the error

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchWindowException: Unable to get browser

I know the window exists because I used the ieDriver.getWindowHandles() method to retrieve it.

All my protected mode settings are the same, I even tried to use the 'INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS' technique to no avail. Any other suggestions?

I'm running selenium 2.32.0 with IE9 on a Windows 7 machine.

Have you tried another way of solving this? Maybe pressing ALT+TAB will get you the desired result. I could have helped you in Ruby but I dunno anything about Java. Just proposing a different kind of solution.. — Xwris Stoixeia, Jun 17 '13 at 16:14
I had the same experience, [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19003003/check-if-any-alert-exists-using-selenium-with-python?answertab=active#tab-top) is the solution. It's written in python, hope you can convert codes. — Zeinab Abbasimazar, Oct 22 '13 at 10:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 18 '13 at 05:24

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Above code isfor handling window pops. If you want to handle javascript popups like alerts, or confrmation popup, you need to use

driver.SwitchTo.alert().accept();

or

driver.SwitchTo.alert().dismiss();

hope it'll help you

answered Jun 18 '13 at 05:24

Shammi

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 18 '13 at 13:08

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maybe the popup is generated, with iframe, then you have to use switchTo.frame();

answered Jun 18 '13 at 13:08

buddy

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 11 '13 at 10:13

You should do something like:

  WebDriverWait webDriverWait= new WebDriverWait(driver, 5000);
  webDriverWait.until(ExpectedConditions.alertIsPresent());
  driver.switchTo().alert().accept();

First you will initialize a WebDriverWait object that will allow you to wait until some condition is met, in this case - alert is present. Then, the driver will be switched to this alert,

Selenium ie driver cannot switch to window popup

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