I am writing to ask about --disable-features=SameSiteByDefaultCookies feature which was part of chrome earlier.
I am working with IT MNC and recently we promoted very important functionality to Production. We have started charging customer for this. It is legacy application .
This application can't be tested locally anymore! Earlier we could point out application to lower environment with custom settings in project's config.js file and disabling #same-site-by-default-cookies in Chrome and application could be tested locally. But now we can't!
We tried many different settings and debugged but it could not help !!
It is noted that these settings no longer work in Chrome 94+. These flags are removed entirely.
As per my analysis it is found that application still can be tested locally if we get the portable Chrome. Or older version of Chrome installed in our System. However as per the compliance policy of company and client, we can't get old or portable chrome in system. We have latest version only.
Earlier we used to perform following to run it locally:
Open CMD
cd to Chrome path ( Till Application )
Fire the following command:
chrome.exe --disable-web-security --user-data-dir=C:\XXXX\XXXX\localwlp --disable-features=SameSiteByDefaultCookies"
This would open a new window of Chrome ( Close all before firing the command) and then we could test the application locally.
Anybody is aware about the alternative for this? That would be really helpful. We can't test the application locally so for even small changes, we require to deploy on lower environments which takes a lot of time and also code will work or not can't say.
I look forward to hearing from you all guys.
Thanks,
Kailash Nirmal.
I have scripted selenium web driver.. It was working fine in IE9. I have upgraded to IE11. The sendkeys command is very in typing characters. It is entering one by one character and it is really slow.. I definitely did not make any change in the script. Only I upgraded the browser.. Is there any reason for this? Can any one know the resolution please let me know
Thanks
I had similar problem with my windows 8, IE11 and webdriver 64bit.
I swapped the 64 bit webdriver to the 32bit one and then the tests just went very fast. (fast response from send_keys which used to be 4-5 secs per key...)
Hope this helps.
I have implemented the following technology stack for automated unit testing in the browser.
Mocha -> Selenium -> Phantomjs
I followed this example:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/headless-functional-testing-with-selenium-and-phantomjs/
I suspect that there might be a bug in the "send keys" command between Selenium and PhantomJs. I do not have any experience in these 2 technologies, so I suspect it is rather me making some configuration mistake.
Basically what happens is that the characters sent by Selenium is not all applied by PhantomJs.
I switched PhantomJs out with Firefox and there it works like a charm.
The Selenium output for the 2 drivers are exactly the same. So I am left with suspecting a bug in PhantomJs or Ghostdriver. But as I said it might just be me not configuring the thing correctly. Given that this is quite a big issue I really suspect that is the case.
I am also not 100% sure where to log this, if this is indeed a bug.
There were a couple of issues with sendKeys fixed recently.
https://github.com/camme/webdriverjs/issues?page=1&state=closed
Are you running the latest version?
If not I would log a bug there about it.
I am running scripts using selenium version 2.29 and IEDriverServer.exe 64 on Internet explorer 8 and 9 both of them are 64 bit.
When I run these tests on firefox it takes around 2 min but in IE its takes around 20-40 min and they dont run at all sometime just get stuck. We use a windows server 2008 r2 and java jdk jdk1.7.0_11 64 bit version.
We by pass the initial certificates using
selenium.getWebDriver().navigate().to("javascript:document.getElementById('overridelink').click()");
Is there is way to make these tests faster. I even close the instance of IEDriverServer.exe everytime I close the browser.
Is there is a way to make my tests faster?
After hearing what is happening and outside of the spawning multiple instances (Thanks Lucas) the other thing that comes to mind as a culprit is what kind of locators you are using. Using Xpath slows IE way down, though the time difference is a bit extreme for that to be the only problem.
If you are using xpath, try switching to id or name locators. If your testing is anything like mine though, those aren't always available. If that is the case, CSS works better(faster) in IE instead of xpath.
Use 32 bit Version of IE driver and Run the test suite. it will work for Sure
I'm having Internet Explorer 6 problems on one of my sites, and I really wish I had it installed instead of Internet Explorer 7. Is there a quick way to do this?
Download Microsoft VirtualPC. Then download any of the files in Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. The second download contains four VHD (virtual hard drive) files which have:
XP SP2
IE 7
XP SP3
IE 6, IE 8 Beta 2
Vista SP1
IE 7
Multiple IE:
It is possible to run Internet Explorer in standalone mode without having to over-write previous versions thanks to Joe Maddalone who came up with a way of achieving that in November 2003. Basically, Internet Explorer is run by exploiting a known workaround to DLL hell - which was introduced in Windows 2000 and later versions - called DLL redirection.
Manfred Staudinger perfected the standalone versions by adding IE version numbers to the title bar of the standalone browser window. Moreover, by removing the "IE" key in the registry subkey [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version Vector] Internet Explore defaulted to respecting conditional comments based on the version number prebuilt in the program.
It is not difficult to follow the instructions and get any version of IE running in standalone along side other versions. Most of you probably know of evolt's archive of Internet Explorer which has them readily packaged in ZIP files. Now suppose you want to download them all. An installer that would conveniently automate the whole process would be great. Thanks to this comment for the idea.
So I made an installer which contains IE3 IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6...
Download Virtual PC and set up a bunch of them for testing with various browsers/OS's. Once set up, this makes it trivial to test on IE6,7 and 8, various Firefox flavours, Konqueror, Opera, Safari, etc...
See Samuel's answer for a helpful VPC image in getting this started:
I recommend always testing your sites using BrowserShots. You can see how your site looks across multiple browsers, with multiple versions, on multiple operating systems. You can do something like 50 tests a day on their free service.
Also check out IETester, which gives you 5.5, 6, 7, 8b2 in one app.
Litmus is another BrowserShots-esque service.
This works fine for me: Multiple IE
Edit: looks like the minute it took me to find the URL was enough for 3 people to beat me to it..wow
IETester is pretty good, compare IE5.5/IE6/IE7/IE8 side by side.