Can't open new window/tab in chrome using webriver

[peter pala]

Hi All,

When I tried to open new tab/window in chrome browser,new url is open within same tab/window not new tab/window.
Below code work with Firefox perfectly.My chrome version is 28.0

 driver.get("https://www.google.com");
 Actions act=new Actions(driver);
 act.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys("t").keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).build().perform(); //Open new tab
 driver.get("https://www.facebook.com"); // open facebook
 act.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(Keys.TAB).keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).build().perform();
 Please advise me to resolve this problem..
Thanks
Peter

[Punkaaj Chavaan]

Hi Peter,

Your code wont open facebook.com in newly opened tab in chrome, below is the code that would work fine on both FF and chrome.

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
                "D:\\bckup\\Documents\\Documents\\Selenium\\chrome driver\\2.21\\chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        String currWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();

        driver.get("https://www.google.com");
       
        Actions act = new Actions(driver);
        act.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys("t").keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).build().perform(); // Open new tab

        Set<String> windowsList = driver.getWindowHandles();
        for (String str : windowsList) {
            if (!str.equals(currWindow)) {
                driver.switchTo().window(str);

            }
        }
        driver.get("https://www.facebook.com"); // open facebook

Regards,
Punkaaj
My Blog

[Andreas Tolfsen]

peter pala <kaln...@gmail.com> writes:

> When I tried to open new tab/window in chrome browser,new url is open
> within same tab/window not new tab/window. Below code work with
> Firefox perfectly.My chrome version is 28.0
>
> driver.get("https://www.google.com");
> Actions act=new Actions(driver);

> act.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys("t").keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).build().p erform(); //Open new tab

> driver.get("https://www.facebook.com"); // open facebook
> act.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(Keys.TAB).keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).buil d().perform();

Generally I would not trust WebDriver to be able to trigger chrome-level
action sequences.

To open a new tab or window, you can execute `window.open`.

[Fernando A. Rodriguez]

Your code works well when I have only one instance running in front.
But it seems it doesn't work when you have another window being
displayed in front.
This scenario is very common when you run lot of tests in parallel using grid.

Regards
Fernando

[punkaaj chavaan]

Which browsers are you using to run this code in parallel?

Because, this code runs good on Chrome and FF but not on IE. While executing on IE, it opens the new tab but does not get facebook.com in newly opened tab, since both window handles (for tab1 and tab2) have same value. I am looking out for a workaround for this.

Regards,

Punkaaj
http://selenium-coding.blogspot.in

Fernando

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[Purushotham Karimbedu]

Hi Peter pala, 

@Test public void Newtab() throws Exception {
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get("http://seleniumlearn.com"); {
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"t");
ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String> (driver.getWindowHandles());
driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(0));
driver.get("http://facebook.com/chinna.in"); } }                            
       - See more at: http://www.seleniumlearn.com/selenium-commands#sthash.Hm1DqYRi.dpuf

OR

http://www.seleniumlearn.com/how-open-link-new-tab-or-window-and-switch-work-using-selenium

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Thanks & Regards,

Purushotham Karimbedu,

Drupal Developer and QA Engineer,

Website for QA : http://www.seleniumlearn.com

Phone no: 09000109120.

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