Skype download page loads and breaks my tests.

[Victor Chirinian]

Hello Everyone,

 I recently upgraded the version of firefox I am using for my web-driver tests and have run into a snag. Every time my tests begin to run, and after the new Firefox driver is instantiated, the following page loads : https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34612/what-is-the-skype-extension, instead of the url I am handing the driver. I disabled the Skype extension for Firefox, but I still don't know why this page keeps on loading. Has this been happening to anyone else ? 

[Anup]

Skype add-on installed on FF is responsible for the same issue. Uninstall Skype Click to Call(~7.2MB File) software from Control Panel.

Regards,

Anupam Patil 

[Ram krishna]

Hi Chirinian,

Another way is you can create a fresh firefox profile from your script and pass the profile to your Webdriver Object.

That way you can use the fresh profile excluding the addons that is frustrating you...

Regards

Ramakrishna

[Subrat Jyetki]

Please try this 

String originalHandle = driver.getWindowHandle();

    //Do something to open new tabs

    for(String handle : driver.getWindowHandles()) {
        if (!handle.equals(originalHandle)) {
            driver.switchTo().window(handle);
            driver.close();
        }
    }
 

    driver.switchTo().window(originalHandle);