How to keep the Watir browser run on the backend?

[watirQ]

Experts 

Each time when use .goto or open a new tab, the browser window will lump to the frontend of the screen. How to keep the Watir browser run on the backend, so that will  not interrupt other works

Thanks

[rajagopalan madasami]

That's not possible from WATIR. Its in the control of the driver.

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[NaviHan]

Try this after you open the browser

browser.window.move_to(-3000, 0)

This will minimize the window

[rajagopalan madasami]

But it will still shows up for some seconds.

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[Titus Fortner]

You can set it up to move off the screen when it opens by passing in the args to the ChromeOptions class: https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#window-position

it probably will still steal focus momentarily even if it isn't on top of your screen,

On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 9:13:41 AM UTC-5, rajagopalan madasami wrote:

But it will still shows up for some seconds.

On Wed, 10 Apr, 2019, 7:42 PM NaviHan, <hishin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Try this after you open the browser

browser.window.move_to(-3000, 0)

This will minimize the window

On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 22:42:13 UTC+10, watirQ wrote:

Experts 

Each time when use .goto or open a new tab, the browser window will lump to the frontend of the screen. How to keep the Watir browser run on the backend, so that will  not interrupt other works

Thanks

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[rajagopalan madasami]

It would still bring the screen to the front when alert appears.

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[NaviHan]

Tried this, browser didnt minimize

  args = ['--allow-running-insecure-content --window-position=-3000, 0']
  browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, options: {args: args}

Titus is this correct?

On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 22:42:13 UTC+10, watirQ wrote:

[Titus Fortner]

I think it needs to be two strings separated by a comma. I have no idea if it actually works.

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[Justin Ko]

The --window-position arguments should be without a space - eg:

args = ['--window-position=-3000,0']

browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, options: {args: args}

Note that this is just positioning it off-screen; not actually minimizing.

Justin

[NaviHan]

  args = ['--window-position=-3000,0']

  browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, options: {args: args}

Doesnt work either.

Can the OP confirm if it works for him?

On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 22:42:13 UTC+10, watirQ wrote:

[watirQ]

No. This works as the very beginning,  but the browser sill jumps into the front of the screen as soon as it's loading.. 

在 2019年4月11日星期四 UTC+8上午9:27:21，NaviHan写道：