Selenium webdriver cannot launch Internet Explorer 10 and 11 in In-private Model with RemoteWebDriver

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 6544

Hi, 
selenium team,
After investigate i found only internet Explorer 8 and 9 can launch in In-private Model
with RemoteWebDriver, below is my test environment step:
1) download the latest jar file selenium-server-standalone-2.37.0.jar and IEDriverServer.exe.
2) open the WIN7 Registry Editor, find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main folder and new a REG_DWORD (32-bit) value name as TabProcGrowth, set
the value as decimal 0.
3) start the IEDriverServer with the command java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.37.0.jar
-Dwebdriver.ie.driver=.\IEDriverServer.exe.
4) prepare capabilities in java code.
   DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
   capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.FORCE_CREATE_PROCESS, true);
   capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IE_SWITCHES, "-private");
   ........

test Result:
internet Explorer 10 and 11 in In-private Model with RemoteWebDriver. but test internet
Explorer 10 can be launch in In-private Model in local machine. and internet Explorer
11 cann't find the element very well, will occur the following exception:
org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Received a JavaScript error attempting
to click on the element using synthetic events. We are assuming this is because the
element isn't displayed, but it may be due to other problems with executing JavaScript.
(WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 235 milliseconds
Build info: version: '2.37.0', revision: 'a7c61cb', time: '2013-10-18 17:14:00'
System info: host: 'WIN7CN', ip: '192.168.230.131', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch:
'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.6.0_38-ea'
Session ID: 1e7254e7-c0a6-4356-825e-0438b795a2a9
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver
Capabilities [{platform=WINDOWS, javascriptEnabled=true, elementScrollBehavior=0, enablePersistentHover=false,
ignoreZoomSetting=false, ie.ensureCleanSession=false, browserName=internet explorer,
enableElementCacheCleanup=true, unexpectedAlertBehaviour=dismiss, version=11, ie.usePerProcessProxy=false,
cssSelectorsEnabled=true, ignoreProtectedModeSettings=true, requireWindowFocus=false,
initialBrowserUrl=http://localhost:10427/, handlesAlerts=true, ie.forceCreateProcessApi=false,
nativeEvents=false, browserAttachTimeout=0, ie.browserCommandLineSwitches=, takesScreenshot=true}]
Command duration or timeout: 5.42 seconds
Build info: version: '2.35.0', revision: '8df0c6bedf70ff9f22c647788f9fe9c8d22210e2',
time: '2013-08-17 12:46:41'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version:
'1.6.0_38-ea'
Session ID: 9d514a67-3806-4f10-97ce-95b98ca72a58
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver
Capabilities [{platform=WINDOWS, javascriptEnabled=true, elementScrollBehavior=0, enablePersistentHover=false,
ignoreZoomSetting=false, ie.ensureCleanSession=false, browserName=internet explorer,
enableElementCacheCleanup=true, unexpectedAlertBehaviour=dismiss, webdriver.remote.sessionid=9d514a67-3806-4f10-97ce-95b98ca72a58,
version=11, ie.usePerProcessProxy=false, ignoreProtectedModeSettings=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true,
requireWindowFocus=false, initialBrowserUrl=http://localhost:10427/, handlesAlerts=true,
ie.forceCreateProcessApi=false, nativeEvents=false, browserAttachTimeout=0, ie.browserCommandLineSwitches=,
takesScreenshot=true}]
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:191)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:145)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:554)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:268)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.click(RemoteWebElement.java:79)
    at com.dell.foglight.str.replayer.IECookieTest.testIEWithPirvateModel(IECookieTest.java:135)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:41)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:20)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:263)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:69)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:48)

could you kindly explain about it? webdriver support the Internet Explorer 11 now?

i would like to ask two questions:
1) Selenium webdriver cannot launch Internet Explorer 10 and 11 in In-private Model
with RemoteWebDriver, can you give some advises?
2) webdriver support the Internet Explorer 11 now?

Thanks

Reported by terry.lee.core on 2013-11-08 06:15:17

[lukeis]

IE11 is not supported yet. Stay tuned :)

Reported by barancev on 2013-11-20 08:08:21

• Labels added: Browser-IE

[lukeis]

According to Jim Evans:

"I've had a little more time to look at this now. I've tested it against the Windows
8.1 preview build available for download from Microsoft.

The good news is that it looks like the IE driver *mostly* works with IE11, provided
that (a) all security zones are set to the same Protected Mode setting and (b) Enhanced
Protected Mode is turned off. Note that the standard registry checks that the IE driver
uses to test for Protected Mode settings in IE7-10 are broken for IE11, and we've never
made any attempt to check for Enhanced Protected Mode, so there's no warning (yet)
if you don't have these settings properly set.

The bad news is that cookie manipulation is broken. Badly. If you attempt to set or
retrieve cookies, there's a chance that you'll end up with the "Unable to get browser"
error encountered before. At the moment, there is no workaround for that. Matt, looking
at the log you posted earlier, it looks like you were doing some cookie manipulation
before you got into the bad state."

Reported by gyorgy.hrabovszki on 2013-12-02 11:10:28

[lukeis]

If it helps - we're having issues with setting cookies in when using remoteWebDiver
or sauceLabs and IE with selenium standalone 2.38.0 and the Dec 5th 2013 64-bit ieDriverServer.exe

I've noticed the cookies are set at the initial webDriver.get() and then they don't
change. If I try to add a cookie during runtime, such as "bob" or "tom" it will add,
but not "JSESSIONID", which is what we need to sync things up in our tests.

I've tried the following capabilities and their variations to no avail:

//        capabilities.setCapability("ignoreProtectedModeSettings", true);
//
//        capabilities.setCapability("ie.forceCreateProcessApi", true);
//        capabilities.setCapability("ie.ensureCleanSession", true);
//        capabilities.setCapability("ie.setProxyByServer", true);
//
        capabilities.setCapability("logFile", "/tmp/server.log");
        capabilities.setCapability("logLevel", "TRACE");
//        capabilities.setCapability("initialBrowserUrl", "http://admin.experticity.qa2/action/login");

We have tried adding cookies via the driver.manage() route and also through javascript
using "document.cookie" as well.. neither seem to do the trick.

Reported by polaire on 2013-12-14 01:01:25

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[lukeis]

Pls let me know if anybody can launch IE11 from selenium RC?

Reported by beece06 on 2014-01-07 10:58:23

[lukeis]

I can't launch IE11 from Selenium RC either. e.g.
---
public class NewTest extends SeleneseTestCase {
  @Override
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
    setUp("http://www.google.com/", "*iexploreproxy");
  }
  public void testNew() throws Exception {
    // Never executed...
  }
}
---

If I run this test case then IE11 opens one window at:
http://www.google.com/selenium-server/core/RemoteRunner.html?sessionId=35b42601109e4fc18c56a66f66e41bfd&multiWindow=true&baseUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&debugMode=false

The page contains the text:
The requested URL /selenium-server/core/RemoteRunner.html?sessionId=35b42601109e4fc18c56a66f66e41bfd&multiWindow=true&baseUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&debugMode=false
was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

And yes, I'd love to have all my tests written using WebDriver :)

Reported by moreginger on 2014-01-30 11:54:30

[lukeis]

Same for me. Just a note that this is a first time setup of IEDriver so the driver file
is the most current, etc. 
At first I went looking for the security issue, but I see others are having the same
trouble.

Received a JavaScript error attempting to click on the element using synthetic events.
We are assuming this is because the element isn't displayed, but it may be due to other
problems with executing JavaScript. (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace
information)
Command duration or timeout: 289 milliseconds
Build info: version: '2.39.0', revision: 'ff23eac', time: '2013-12-16 16:11:15'
System info: host: 'Bombadil', ip: '192.168.1.70', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64',
os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_45'
Session ID: bce93c39-12f8-49f3-bf41-639e2d9d425f
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver
Capabilities [{platform=WINDOWS, javascriptEnabled=true, elementScrollBehavior=0, ignoreZoomSetting=false,
enablePersistentHover=false, ie.ensureCleanSession=false, browserName=internet explorer,
enableElementCacheCleanup=true, unexpectedAlertBehaviour=dismiss, version=11, ie.usePerProcessProxy=false,
cssSelectorsEnabled=true, ignoreProtectedModeSettings=false, requireWindowFocus=false,
handlesAlerts=true, initialBrowserUrl=http://localhost:9559/, ie.forceCreateProcessApi=false,
nativeEvents=false, browserAttachTimeout=0, ie.browserCommandLineSwitches=, takesScreenshot=true}]
(org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException) (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ElementNotVisibleError)
[remote server] sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl():-2:in `newInstance0'
[remote server] sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl():-1:in `newInstance'
[remote server] sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl():-1:in `newInstance'
[remote server] java.lang.reflect.Constructor():-1:in `newInstance'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler(ErrorHandler.java):193:in `createThrowable'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler(ErrorHandler.java):145:in `throwIfResponseFailed'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver(RemoteWebDriver.java):554:in
`execute'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement(RemoteWebElement.java):268:in
`execute'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement(RemoteWebElement.java):79:in
`click'
[remote server] sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl():-2:in `invoke0'
[remote server] sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl():-1:in `invoke'
[remote server] sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl():-1:in `invoke'
[remote server] java.lang.reflect.Method():-1:in `invoke'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.support.events.EventFiringWebDriver$EventFiringWebElement$1(EventFiringWebDriver.java):331:in
`invoke'
[remote server] com.sun.proxy.$Proxy3():-1:in `click'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.support.events.EventFiringWebDriver$EventFiringWebElement(EventFiringWebDriver.java):344:in
`click'
[remote server] sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl():-2:in `invoke0'
[remote server] sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl():-1:in `invoke'
[remote server] sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl():-1:in `invoke'
[remote server] java.lang.reflect.Method():-1:in `invoke'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.KnownElements$1(KnownElements.java):63:in
`invoke'
[remote server] com.sun.proxy.$Proxy4():-1:in `click'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.ClickElement(ClickElement.java):29:in
`call'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.ClickElement(ClickElement.java):1:in
`call'
[remote server] java.util.concurrent.FutureTask():-1:in `run'
[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$1(DefaultSession.java):170:in
`run'
[remote server] java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor():-1:in `runWorker'
[remote server] java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker():-1:in `run'
[remote server] java.lang.Thread():-1:in `run'
./framework/helpers/Element.rb:16:in `click'
./framework/Page.rb:223:in `click_button'
./features/step_definitions/general.rb:176:in `/^I click on the "([^\"]*)" (tab|footer|link|button)$/'
features\_accounts.feature:626:in `Then I am able to log into the "demo_child_only_created_by_admin"
account on SOLARO'

Reported by jam.may on 2014-02-04 15:34:08

[lukeis]

IE11 is explicitly unsupported at this time. This issue is being tracked in issue #6511.
If you're experiencing this issue with IE10, please provide a reproducible case. If
you're experiencing it with IE11, please wait until issue #6511 is resolved.

Reported by james.h.evans.jr on 2014-02-04 16:19:14

• Status changed: NeedsClarification
• Labels removed: Status-Untriaged

[lukeis]

I've synched up our binaries, so our automation libraries are using selenium 2.40.0
and our IEDriverServer binaries are using the same version.

The windows machine (RWD hub and node, "csamuelsen2") has IE 10 installed. It has been
set up to where "enable protected mode" has been disabled for all zones, and the protected
mode setting in the advanced tab has also been disabled. TabProcGrowth registry key
is set to 0.

When tests run, a JSESSIONID cookie gets set, but it's not visible when IE is used,
and therefore it prevents us from being able to modify or delete that cookie.

We use a client api to perform authentication using HTTP Post and then we add the session
cookie in place of the original using driver.mange() or through document.cookies in
javascript. We can get this to work for chrome and firefox, but not IE.

I've attached the iedriverserver log files for both the driver.manage() attempt and
the document.cookies attempt. IDE console output has been appended to the bottom of
each. 



Since there's a lot of custom-ish stuff that may get in the way of reproduction, I've
also attached a simple junit test that can hopefully clarify the issue a bit -- just
be sure to sub out the wd hub url.

Reported by polaire on 2014-03-10 18:28:23

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[lukeis]

I am not able to launch IE 11 in windows 8.1 , I am using JDK 1.7 and selenium-java-2.43.0
. 

I am getting following error  , 


Started InternetExplorerDriver server (32-bit) 
2.43.0.0 
Listening on port 15557 
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.remote.SessionNotFoundException: Unexpected
error launching Internet Explorer. Protected Mode settings are not the same for all
zones. Enable Protected Mode must be set to the same value (enabled or disabled) for
all zones. (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) 
Command duration or timeout: 1.43 seconds 
Build info: version: '2.43.0', revision: '597b76b', time: '2014-09-09 20:52:38' 
System info: host: 'pMBBAutomation', ip: '10.18.66.112', os.name: 'Windows 8.1', os.arch:
'x86', os.version: '6.3', java.version: '1.7.0_60' 
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver 
        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:162)

        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:599)

        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:240)

        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:225)

        at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:182)

        at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:174)

        at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:146)

        at IEDemo.Demo.main(Demo.java:18) 


Can any body please suggest some solution ,

Thanks @ Regards
Manoj Upreti

Reported by manoj.upreti24 on 2014-09-30 09:38:13