How do you force InternetExplorerDriver to launch 32-bit IE?

[D Morse]

I see in the IEDriver documentation that the version launch is
determined by the bitness of the client code:

"The client side checks to see if the OS is x64. If this succeeds then
it checks that the process running the client side code is a 64-bit
process. If that succeeds then the client code will try load the 64-
bit version of Internet Explorer. If any of the checks for x64 fail
the code will try use 32-bit version of Internet Explorer"

I hit a bug where a "click" works in FireFox, but fails in 64-bit IE.
I can't test 32-bit IE because 64-bit IE always launches. My OS is
Windows 7 x64 and my Eclipse and JVM are x64.

How can I force the driver to launch the 32-bit version of IE?

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

I have seen an IE 32 bit version being spawned when I make use of 32bit JDK and instantiate the WebDriver instance from it.

I guess it all depends on whether your JDK is 32bit or 64bit.

Try switching over to 32bit JDK and you should see IE 32bit being spinned.

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[SeleniumUser]

I tried using -Dos.arch=Win32 based on the source code, but then I just had other issues.  Anyone else have any luck with this?

[Enix Shen]

could you share the issues you mentioned below.

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[Newbee]

Any solution to this? 

On Monday, March 26, 2012 3:26:57 AM UTC-7, EnixShen wrote:

could you share the issues you mentioned below.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:31 PM, SeleniumUser <anders....@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried using -Dos.arch=Win32 based on the source code, but then I just had other issues.  Anyone else have any luck with this?

On Wednesday, December 7, 2011 5:42:14 PM UTC-6, D Morse wrote:

I see in the IEDriver documentation that the version launch is
determined by the bitness of the client code:

"The client side checks to see if the OS is x64. If this succeeds then
it checks that the process running the client side code is a 64-bit
process. If that succeeds then the client code will try load the 64-
bit version of Internet Explorer. If any of the checks for x64 fail
the code will try use 32-bit version of Internet Explorer"

I hit a bug where a "click" works in FireFox, but fails in 64-bit IE.
I can't test 32-bit IE because 64-bit IE always launches. My OS is
Windows 7 x64 and my Eclipse and JVM are x64.

How can I force the driver to launch the 32-bit version of IE?

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[Vitali Samusik]

The answer actually is really simple

There are 2 selenium web drivers for IE

driverIE = new OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriver(ie32DriverPath);

And on your 64 bits system you'll have 32-bit IE running.
THat is of course if you have the 32 bit ie somewhere like C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer


понедельник, 11 июня 2012 г., 21:56:31 UTC+3 пользователь Newbee написал:

Any solution to this? 

On Monday, March 26, 2012 3:26:57 AM UTC-7, EnixShen wrote:

could you share the issues you mentioned below.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:31 PM, SeleniumUser <anders....@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried using -Dos.arch=Win32 based on the source code, but then I just had other issues.  Anyone else have any luck with this?

On Wednesday, December 7, 2011 5:42:14 PM UTC-6, D Morse wrote:

I see in the IEDriver documentation that the version launch is
determined by the bitness of the client code:

"The client side checks to see if the OS is x64. If this succeeds then
it checks that the process running the client side code is a 64-bit
process. If that succeeds then the client code will try load the 64-
bit version of Internet Explorer. If any of the checks for x64 fail
the code will try use 32-bit version of Internet Explorer"

I hit a bug where a "click" works in FireFox, but fails in 64-bit IE.
I can't test 32-bit IE because 64-bit IE always launches. My OS is
Windows 7 x64 and my Eclipse and JVM are x64.

How can I force the driver to launch the 32-bit version of IE?

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[Krishnan Mahadevan]

@Vitali,

Not sure what was the intent behind picking up a nearly 2 year old thread!

The ability to spawn either a 32bit or a 64 bit IE browser is purely governed by the bitness of the IEDriverServer executable. 

So if one is using IEDriverServer_x64_2.41.0 then a 64 bit IE browser would be spawned on the machine and if one is using IEDriverServer_Win32_2.41.0 then a 32 bit IE browser would be spawned.

The easy way of working with IEDriverServer is ensuring that it is found in the PATH variable.

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[sunny sachdeva]

@ Krishnan

This does not works for me. Recently we included IE for our testing in selenium

Even if I give path of 32 bit IEDriver , the Internet Explorer (the browser) opened is of 64 bit.

How I confirmed this by

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","D:\\Research\\WorkSpace\\SeleniumOne\\Resources\\Drivers\\IEDriverServer.exe");

WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

And then go to taskmanager  and check the processes. It shows

1. IEDriverServer.exe*32   >> this is fine since we opened 32 bit

2. iexplorer.exe >>Not sure why 64 bit is getting opened it should be iexplorer.exe*32

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

S

[Jim Evans]

Sigh. As I've said over and over and over again, the distinction between 32-bit and 64-bit IE is largely gone with IE 10. Even when you manually launch the 32-bit iexplore.exe on 64-bit Windows, the browser shuts itself down and relaunches the 64-bit executable. Eric Lawrence has written in depth about this on his blog. The "mixed-bitness" behavior of IE 10 and 11 is the only known cause of slow sendKeys, and the technical details are well documented on my blog. I have never seen slow sendKeys using the 32-bit IEDriverServer.exe.

[Afzal]

Hi,

Please correct me, if i'm wrong ......

i use to run my script by using below format

public static void launchIE() throws Exception {

if(System.getProperty("os.arch").contains("64") || System.getProperty("sun.arch.data.model").contains("64")){

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir")+File.separator+"IEDriverServer64.exe");

 

}else{

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir")+File.separator+"IEDriverServer32.exe");

}

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

driver.get("site");

}

Regards,

Afzal

[Jim Evans]

Depends. What version of IE are you executing against?

For IE9 and below, that'll work fine, and will give you 64-bit IE on 64-bit Windows, and will give you 32-bit IE on 32-bit Windows. Note that this ignores for the moment that virtually no users actually use 64-bit IE for IE9 or below.

If you're using IE10 or IE11, and you're running on 64-bit Windows, you'll get a mixed-bitness IE, where the manager process is 64-bit, and the content process (where the web page is actually rendered) is 32-bit. Even if you manually launch the 32-bit iexplore.exe, IE (the browser, not the driver) shuts itself down and launches the 64-bit executable.