Popup that refreshes opener kills session in Google Chrome

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 1221

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Call following function in popup code
function closePopup(){
    opener.focus();
    opener.location.reload(); 
    self.close();
}

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected popup to close and reload parent window. But instead it loads parent location
with http://host/selenium-server/core/Blank.html?start=true which kills the rest of
the session, i.e. waitForPageToLoad hangs in my case.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Vista, selenium-server-1.0.3, Google Chrome 8.0.552.237

Reported by techtonik on 2011-01-21 19:04:40

[lukeis]

Reported by jari.bakken on 2011-01-27 10:58:33

• Labels added: Component-Core

[lukeis]

I might be seeing the same issue, where I click on a button that in Selenium IDE gives
me this code:

$this->type( $this->findByRegex( "input", "rn_KeywordText2_*_Text" ), "search term"
);
$this->click($this->findByRegex( "input", "rn_SearchButton2_*_SubmitButton" ) );
$this->waitForPopUp("_self", "30000");

But when I run this code in eclipse with Selenium RC and run the code against Google
Chrome, once the submit button is pressed the the results page that presents itselfs
overwrites the Selenium Remote Control Chrome Browser.  This then kills my test since
the RC is overwritten and the Unit tests failes to communicate with selenium RC?

Reported by ivanvandessel on 2011-03-01 22:47:29

[lukeis]

Same issue here.

...click to open popup
Click Element  xpath=//*[@id="NewBtn"]  and don't wait
...click to save data on popup
Click Element  xpath=//*[@id="SaveBtn"]  and wait
...the save gets sent to the RC window instead of the current one.

Win7
Chrome version 12.0.742.100

Reported by kohrock on 2011-06-27 17:34:33

[lukeis]

Has anyone found a solution for this problem? I am seeing the same issue. Last post
was more than a year ago. thanks for your help.

Reported by sujay.karve on 2012-08-19 06:50:45

[lukeis]

please help , if anyone found any solution for this issue..

i am facing this issue for Chrome version 16 and selenium 2.25

Reported by spiderrahul on 2012-10-16 09:58:08

[lukeis]

The solution we took was to use a user extension js function to override the page's
js function that was reloading the window opener. It's not the ideal way to fix the
problem, but seems to be the only solution at this time.

Reported by TheMichaelMalone on 2012-10-16 15:22:23

[lukeis]

Hi Michael,

Can u please describe as to how i may use the user extensions js file ...is it something
that needs to be changed in application code or at the selenium jar end..

Please guide..

Regards,
Rahul

Reported by spiderrahul on 2012-10-22 11:55:04

[lukeis]

It depends completely on your setup/use of selenium. I opted to use the user extensions
js to overload the window function, but you can do it just as easily via the runScript
selenium command. Basically, we just overloaded the main window function that was doing
window.opener commands with a hacked version of the function to not do that. To give
any more detail I would have to see the js function that is causing your problem.

Reported by TheMichaelMalone on 2012-10-22 21:06:33

[lukeis]

Hi Michael,
Could you please attach the workaround for that issue (the piece of code in extension
js)?

I face the same problem while logging to my page (after cricking submit button). 
I use:
chrome version 24.0.1312.57 m
Selenium server 2.28. as RC
and I use testSuites just from IDE (htmlSuite).

Regards,
Aleksandra

Reported by alcudzilo on 2013-02-11 13:18:20