How to open a new window instead of new tab

Question

I am trying to navigate to other window. But firefox is opening new page in new tab, instead of new window. I check the checkbox check and uncheck both.

System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.bin", "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Selenium Purely\\geckodriver\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); //Launches FireFox browser with blank URL
driver.get("http://the-internet.herokuapp.com/windows");

Thread.sleep(4000);

String parentwindow = driver.getWindowHandle();

System.out.println("Parent window handle is  "+parentwindow);
System.out.println("Parent window title is  "+driver.getTitle());

driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Click Here")).click();

Set <String> s1 = driver.getWindowHandles();

Iterator <String> i1= s1.iterator();

while (i1.hasNext())                
{
    String childwindow = i1.next();

    System.out.println("Child window handle is  "+childwindow);
    System.out.println("Child window title is  "+driver.getTitle());

    if(parentwindow != childwindow)
    {
        driver.switchTo().window(childwindow);
        Thread.sleep(4000);

    }                   
}

Answer 1

Well, to work with Selenium you don't need to add the absolute file path of Firefox exe in your code as it will be added in your system PATH variable. So you can omit this line:

System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.bin", "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe");

Now, to make Firefox to open URLs in new Windows there are some settings to be done. As far as your question is concerned How to open a new window instead of new tab here is the working code with IE:

package demo;


import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;


public class TestAnyURLMain {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {


        System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\IEDriverServer.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        driver.get("http://the-internet.herokuapp.com/windows");
        Thread.sleep(4000);
        String parentwindow = driver.getWindowHandle();

        System.out.println("Parent window handle is  "+parentwindow);
        System.out.println("Parent window title is  "+driver.getTitle());

        driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Click Here")).click();

        Set <String> s1 = driver.getWindowHandles();

        Iterator <String> i1= s1.iterator();

        while (i1.hasNext())

        {
            String childwindow = i1.next();

            System.out.println("Child window handle is  "+childwindow);
            System.out.println("Child window title is  "+driver.getTitle());

            if(parentwindow != childwindow)
            {
                driver.switchTo().window(childwindow);
                Thread.sleep(4000);

            }

        }

    }

}

Let me know if this helps you.