Is it possible to switch to an existing open Browser window by WebDriver?

[Ayan Modak]

Let say I have an existing open Chrome browser in my system. This browser has opened manually. Now by code I have launched an object of ChromeDriver.

Is there any way that I can switch to the manually opened chrome browser by the ChromeDriver object?

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[Joe Ward]

I don't think so. What problem are you trying to solve by doing it?

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[Ayan Modak]

I know this is not an usual case of selenium automation but I have a desktop app automation project which launches browser on clicking some help menu.

The target of the test is to verify the URL of the browser and some navigations on the same. 

On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 6:58:58 PM UTC+5:30, That Guy wrote:

I don't think so. What problem are you trying to solve by doing it?

On 8 May 2018 at 12:51, Ayan Modak <ayan....@globant.com> wrote:

Let say I have an existing open Chrome browser in my system. This browser has opened manually. Now by code I have launched an object of ChromeDriver.

Is there any way that I can switch to the manually opened chrome browser by the ChromeDriver object?

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[Wayne]

I doubt this is possible. I had done a project in the past that was able to have a few threads running so that one thread opens a chrome via webdriver.Chrome() then keeps the executor url and session sid then save them to local db for other threads to use. Once other threads opens the process via webdriver.Remote() to use the opened chrome process. Keep in mind tho, you need to close the opened chrome before triggering webdriver.Remote().

I hope this may give you some idea to proceed with yours. I see the difference is that the first one you opened was manually opened. But this can be done similarly too.

Wayne

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[poobathy r]

Yes may be you can integrate the coded ui.. But please try with this 

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