Unable to run selenium webdriver script in IE11

Question

I have IE 11 browser on Windows 8. I'm trying to automate a simple search but I am getting an exception. (The script works in Firefox)

I made regedit changes according to instructions given in https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver

Created a QWORD value since I have 64 bit machine.

Following error appears:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchWindowException: Unable to find element on closed window (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

What else can I do to overcome this issue?

• demouser123: Did you search on stackoverflow. There are many people with the same issues.
• demouser123: stackoverflow.com/questions/26712417/…

Answer 1

When I got the same error I edited settings in Internet Explorer:

Tools -> Internet option -> Security

Change security from high to medium-high or medium and UN-check Enable Protection Mode

Second problem I found is:

Sendkeys Working too Slow

For this problem I used IE 32 Bit Driver

Hope this will solve your problem.

Answer 2

It is hard to say without seeing your code but a quick search on StackOverflow shows that people with similar error messages are having issues related to IE's Protected Mode (source) or: capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,true); (source).

• saifur: However, manually setting the protected mode setting is recommended way than setting it from capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,true);