Unable to find element on closed window on IE 11 with Selenium

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I'm trying to run tests on Internet Explorer 11 working with Selenium WebDriver. The code is:

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "Path/to//IEDriverServer.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.get("www.google.com");
driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

And I get this error:

Started InternetExplorerDriver server (64-bit) 2.46.0.0 Listening on port 43760 Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchWindowException: Unable to find element on closed window (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) Command duration or timeout: 15 milliseconds Build info: version: '2.46.0', revision: '61506a4624b13675f24581e453592342b7485d71', time: '2015-06-04 10:22:50' System info: host: 'user1-PC', ip: '10.0.23.71', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_45' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver Capabilities [{browserAttachTimeout=0, enablePersistentHover=true, ie.forceCreateProcessApi=false, pageLoadStrategy=normal, ie.usePerProcessProxy=false, ignoreZoomSetting=false, handlesAlerts=true, version=11, platform=WINDOWS, nativeEvents=true, ie.ensureCleanSession=false, elementScrollBehavior=0, ie.browserCommandLineSwitches=, requireWindowFocus=false, browserName=internet explorer, initialBrowserUrl=http://localhost:43760/, takesScreenshot=true, javascriptEnabled=true, ignoreProtectedModeSettings=false, enableElementCacheCleanup=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, unexpectedAlertBehaviour=dismiss}] Session ID: 8a5b7ab5-862a-462d-ab4b-929d4ed5b71a *** Element info: {Using=name, value=q} at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:204) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:156) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:605) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:358) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByName(RemoteWebDriver.java:431) at org.openqa.selenium.By$ByName.findElement(By.java:300) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:350) at MySel20Proj.MySel20Proj.App.main(App.java:42)

I tried to follow the configure tutorial on https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver but is still not working. And this code works on Firefox and Chrome.

Yes, the script opens the IE browser, the exception is when it has to find the element q (the search textbox) — Alex, Jun 30 '15 at 09:54
I tried it on Selenium Build #2.44 and it worked fine. Please downgrade your selenium version — san1deep2set3hi, Jun 30 '15 at 11:17
Sorry for ambiguous statement. I reffered to IE webdriver version — san1deep2set3hi, Jun 30 '15 at 11:58
Thank you for your answer, but is the same, the exception is still appearing. — Alex, Jun 30 '15 at 12:21
Yes, I did, I created the FEATURE_BFCACHE and inside I created a DWORD value named iexplorer.exe with value 0x0000000 (0) — Alex, Jul 01 '15 at 07:05
The IEDriver is opening.Is it not even navigating to the url or not finding the elements only — Madhan, Jul 02 '15 at 18:14
It does navigate to the URL, but it doesn't find the element. — Alex, Jul 07 '15 at 10:36
Same problem. Browser opens, loads the page, but then throws when trying to find an element on Windows 10, IE11 (with Dart language Selenium client) — Günter Zöchbauer, Sep 11 '15 at 09:41
Someone has found the solution, I have exactly the same issue. I open the IE11 Driver, it navigate to the URL. I have use the same configuration Windows 10, IE11, Selenium 3.0.1 and IEBrowserDriver 3.0.0. There is no one 3.0.1 version — j.barrio, Apr 27 '17 at 10:22

score 33 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 08 '17 at 09:47

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Try going to Internet Options --> Security --> "Enable Protected Mode" on ALL zones should either be checked or ALL unchecked.

edited Jun 08 '17 at 09:47

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Does somebody know WHY this is? – Marijn Sep 26 '16 at 07:19

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '16 at 09:05

There are 2 ways:

Way 1: Setting INITIAL_BROWSER_URL:

File ieFile = new File("D:\\IEDriverServer_x64_2.53.0\\IEDriverServer.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", ieFile.getAbsolutePath());
DesiredCapabilities ieCaps = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
ieCaps.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INITIAL_BROWSER_URL, "http://www.bing.com/");
driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieCaps);
//some operations on that site
driver.findElement(By.id("sb_form_q")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.id("sb_form_q")).sendKeys("Ripon Al Wasim");
driver.findElement(By.id("sb_form_go")).click();

Way 2: To set a registry entry on the target computer:
For IE 11 only, you will need to set a registry entry on the target computer so that the driver can maintain a connection to the instance of Internet Explorer it creates.

For 32-bit Windows: The key you must examine in the registry editor is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE.

For 64-bit Windows: The key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE.

Please note that the FEATURE_BFCACHE subkey may or may not be present, and should be created if it is not present. Important: Inside this key, create a DWORD value named iexplore.exe with the value of 0.

For more details you can visit: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver#required-configuration

This is the main focus: ieCaps.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INITIAL_BROWSER_URL, "http://www.bing.com/"); — Ripon Al Wasim, Apr 28 '16 at 04:38

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 28 '17 at 18:34

I faced the same issue after going through every possible solution finally I got the answer.Try this it will definitely solve your problem as well.

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();

capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "IE");

capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,true);

capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION, true);

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","C://MavenTest//driver//IEDriverServer.exe");

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 05 '16 at 11:59

For 32-bit Windows: The key you must examine in the registry editor is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE.

For 64-bit Windows: The key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE.

Please note that the FEATURE_BFCACHE subkey may or may not be present, and should be created if it is not present. Important: Inside this key, create a DWORD value named iexplore.exe with the value of 0.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 13 '16 at 16:34

I had faced the similar issue. I faced while I was running my code in the Maven build. Here in the POM XML file, I had a different version whereas actual selenium installed is another version. So just changed the version so that it matches with the installed version. And Now everything working fine

nio · Answer 6 · 2018-10-08T21:32:36.653

Ripon Al Wasim posted this url, which is a key to IE11 working with Selenium. https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver#required-configuration

I had this setup:

Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
IE11 64 bit, latest I found
Selenium remote server 2.53.1 64 bit
IEDriverServer 2.53.1 64 bit
selenium 2.53.1 module installed on 64 bit linux machine used with 64 bit python

downloaded from here: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.53/

I had to follow the guide and to:

Set Enhanced Protected Mode to disabled in all security zones which is a requirement for IE10 and IE11.
Add the FEATURE_BFCACHE key and it's iexplore.exe DWORD into registry
I made all used software to be 64 bit.
Check that zoom in IE is set to 100%.
Check if size of text is 100% in Windows display settings.

Additionaly:

I had to disable proxy settings in IE, because it prevented Selenium remote server to communicate with IEDriverServer.
I am running webdriver with requireWindowFocus set to true, because key typing with 64 bit selenium was slow due some timeout issue (Selenium WebDriver typing very slow in text field on IE browser)

And it worked. I divert from the guide when I specify a path to IEDriverServer.exe when I run standalone server, so it doesn't necessary have to be in the PATH.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 30 '20 at 01:08

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Same exception, but in Python. This worked for me:

delay = 30
driver.implicitly_wait(delay)

answered Dec 30 '20 at 01:08

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