driver.quit not working against browser IEv9

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 3324

What steps will reproduce the problem?
-inserting driver.quit in my test is not killing IE browser

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
-the IE browser just remains open after test has been completed, expecting browser
to close.

Selenium version: webdriver 2.18.0
OS: win7 (64)
Browser: Internet Explorer
Brower version: 9


sample code below:

import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

//import org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver;
//import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

public class Selenium2FirstTest {
    @Test
    public void testSelenium2() throws InterruptedException {
        /*
         * Firefox driver is cool, it supports javascript and offers a lot of
         * features You can also use the below drivers WebDriver driver = new
         * InternetExplorerDriver(); WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();
         */
        System.out.println("about to create driver");
        WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

        try {

            System.out.println("about to get()");
            // Go to Google Home Page
            driver.get("http://www.google.com");

            // Look for search textbox and enter search term there
            WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
            searchBox.sendKeys("WebDriver API");

            // Click on 'Search'
            WebElement searchButton = driver.findElement(By.name("btnK"));
            searchButton.click();

            // Close the driver, once you're done.
            driver.quit();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace(); // For debugging purposes
        }

    }

}

Reported by fishy_fingerss@yahoo.co.uk on 2012-02-02 10:53:27

[lukeis]

There are a number of tests in the WebDriver test suite that test the exiting of the
driver, and they are consistently running and passing for IE6, 7, 8 and 9. None of
these tests are exhibiting any of the problems your code would indicate. I strongly
suspect that you're throwing an exception before the driver.quit() line, which is preventing
the browser from shutting down. For instance, when I run your code, I throw an exception
on the line finding the line "searchButton.click();". If you modify your code to the
following, what happens?

public class Selenium2FirstTest {
    @Test
    public void testSelenium2() throws InterruptedException {
        /*
         * Firefox driver is cool, it supports javascript and offers a lot of
         * features You can also use the below drivers WebDriver driver = new
         * InternetExplorerDriver(); WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();
         */
        System.out.println("about to create driver");
        WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

        try {

            System.out.println("about to get()");
            // Go to Google Home Page
            driver.get("http://www.google.com");

            // Look for search textbox and enter search term there
            WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
            searchBox.sendKeys("WebDriver API");

            // Click on 'Search'
            WebElement searchButton = driver.findElement(By.name("btnK"));
            searchButton.click();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace(); // For debugging purposes
        } finally {
            // Close the driver, once you're done, or when an error occurs.
            driver.quit();
        }
    }

}

Reported by james.h.evans.jr on 2012-02-02 14:50:45

• Status changed: NeedsClarification

[lukeis]

I am also having a similar problem:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
-inserting driver.quit in my testfixture teardown method is not killing Firefox browser
consistently

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
-the Firefox browser just remains open after test has been completed, expecting browser
to close. It appears to work most the time on simple tests but when running an automated
test suite on teamcity using nunit, it never consistently closes all the browser windows
which locks up our agent. 

Selenium version: webdriver 2.18.0
OS: win7 (32)
Browser: Firefox
Brower version: 10
code: c#

I don't believe that the fix suggested above would help in my current setup. Since
each test is wrapped in a try catch already, even if an error is thrown it will be
caught and reported and the testfixture teardown should still run and call webdriver.quit().
I believe that quit is always being called but for whatever reason it doesn't always
close all the browser windows. 

Reported by mortensen.justin on 2012-02-09 18:34:17

[lukeis]

@mortensen.justin in comment 3: this is a separate issue then, and should be reported
as such. However, please be aware that without a set of code that we can use to consistently
reproduce the problem, the issue report won't be actionable.

Reported by james.h.evans.jr on 2012-02-27 18:47:27

[lukeis]

Closing the issue: there is no responce from the author for long time.

Reported by barancev on 2012-05-05 14:35:59

• Status changed: Invalid

[lukeis]

This is a simple code IE open to yahoo.com and then is supposed to close, but the "driver.quit();"
command does not close the browser. Here is the code:

IWebDriver IEdriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(@"C:\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.44.0");
IEdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.yahoo.com/");
IEdriver.Quit();

Reported by geolunalg on 2014-11-16 00:05:53

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 18:14:47

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