Using right-click to open a new tab in Watir

[Greg Allen]

I am using the following code to right-click on a link and open the target in a new tab in FireFox.

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new

profile.native_events = false

caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.firefox(:native_events => false)

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:firefox, profile: profile, desired_capabilities: caps)

agent = Watir::Browser.new(driver)

agent.goto 'http://www.google.com'

link = agent.a(:class => 'gb_ib')

agent.driver.action.context_click(link.wd).send_keys(:arrow_down).send_keys(:return).perform

puts agent.windows.count

puts agent.windows.last.title

agent.windows.last.use

It works fine, except that Watir does not seem to recognize the newly opened tab. The new tab gets opened, and I would expect the "agent.window.last.use" command to change the focus to that new tab. However, it does not.

In fact, printing out the number of windows results in 1 and the title of that page is "Google".

How can I make Watir recognize that I have opened a new tab in this manner?

Thanks!

[Titus Fortner]

I suspect it is a timing issue, since it is taking the 2nd window a while to load, and watir won't recognize it until it is done.

Try:

agent.window(index: 1).when_present.use

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[Greg Allen]

That's a good thought, but it still doesn't work.  I even updated the timeout to 60 seconds:

$ ruby test.rb

c:/Progra~2/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.10/lib/watir-webdriver/wait.rb:48:in `until': timed out after 60 seconds, waiting for {:index=>1} to become present

 (Watir::Wait::TimeoutError)

        from c:/Progra~2/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.10/lib/watir-webdriver/wait.rb:120:in `method_missing'

        from test.rb:22:in `<main>'

[Titus Fortner]

Oh, this is a Firefox thing:

https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=3380

You have to open it in a new window:

agent.driver.action.context_click(link.wd).send_keys(:arrow_down).send_keys(:arrow_down).send_keys(:return).perform