How to remove the Popup using WebDriver

[Subbarayulu Neela]

Hi Team,

Whenever the firefox launching , getting "know your location" Popup unnecessarily.

Manually I clicked on allow. However from Selenium execution the popup exists automatically. Due to this reason all my tests are failed.

I am using WebDriver only. I have cleaned Browser Cache also.

Could you anyone suggest me to resolve the issue.

Please refer the attached screenshot.

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N.subbarayulu

[Tam Minh]

Hi Subbarayulu,

I don't know if it works for you or not, but I usually bypass unnecessary popup by adding cookies. Hope it helps.

Tam

[darrell]

Asking you for your location is a feature of Firefox and not of the website alone. So the prompt you are being sent is actually a feature of Firefox. This means you cannot have Selenium turn it off.

Selenium does have the ability to open Firefox with a specific profile. So you could run Firefox with the -P option, create a Selenium specific profile. Then edit the profile to turn off geo.enabled. Save the profile and use that profile when you start up Firefox. If you go to https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FirefoxDriverInternals it is a good starting point on how to use custom profiles. As for the change to disable geo location:

1. Open Firefox
2. Enter about:config in the address bar
3. Find geo.enabled
4. Double click the entry

You should now have geo.enabled set to false.

[lkat...@tripodtech.net]

When the popup arises, you can switch the focus to popup and click on "Allow". Then you can continue with the rest of your flow. Try with below code :

// Handling Popup
webdriver.switchTo().window(findElement(By.xpath("//path to poup")));
webdriver.findElement(By.xpath("// path to 'Allow' button")).click();

// Now switch the focus to your Web-page
webdriver.switchTo().defaultContent();

After this, you can continue with your flow.