Popup blocking in Google Chrome causing issues wit

Question

I'm writing some automated tests using Capybara/RSpec, I choose/configure the driver by using this little bit of ruby:

Capybara.register_driver :selenium_chrome do |app|
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome)
end

I'm testing whether or not a button I click is opening a popup window and that the window is displaying the content it should. The issue is that when the test opens the window, the Google Chrome popup blocker blocks it, causing the tests to fail. Disabling the blocker from the options menu does not work. Also, I'm afraid that once I run these on the server it will cause the same issue.

Is there a way to disable the popup block for the tests automatically?

Answer 1

Try this:

Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome, :switches => %w[--disable-popup-blocking)

This is mentioned on the RubyBindings page on the Selenium wiki.

Answer 2

You can call driver with options.

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("-incognito");
options.addArguments("--disable-popup-blocking");

ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Answer 3

To work with latest chrome driver, try this

css_selector_for_iframe = 'iframe[name="settings"]'

driver.get('chrome://settings/content')
iframe = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(css_selector_for_iframe)
driver.switch_to_frame(iframe)
driver.find_element_by_name('popups').click()
click_element(driver, '#content-settings-overlay-confirm')
driver.switch_to_default_content()

Answer 4

JavaScript Version

You can do in JavaScript like so...

var chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome.js');
var options = new chrome
              .Options()
              .addArguments('-incognito', '--disable-popup-blocking');

var driver = new webdriver.Builder()
    .forBrowser('chrome')
    .setChromeOptions(options)
    .build();

driver.manage().timeouts().setScriptTimeout(10000);

return driver;

Answer 5

We had a very similar problem. Like John says, the command-line switch no longer works. We tried using a custom profile, but it seemed to be overwritten.

Eventually solved it by manually disabling popups using WebDriver itself:

driver.get('chrome://settings/advanced')
driver.find_element_by_id('privacyContentSettingsButton').click()
driver.find_element_by_name('popups').click()

Which, I guess, is more like what the user would do anyway ;-)

Answer 6

I don't think you can, at the moment. Having the same problem. It doesn't appear that in the current version of chrome, that disabling the popup blocker is a command line switch any more.

http://codesearch.google.com/codesearch#OAMlx_jo-ck/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc&exact_package=chromium