Multiple Instances of Firefox during Selenium Webdriver Testing not handling focus correctly.

Question

I have noticed that while running multiple selenium firefox tests in parallel on a grid that the focus event handling is not working correctly. I have confirmed that when ea

Answer 1

You can wrangle this and get it under your control with no problem. First write a method to identify the popup window by its window handle id. Then, use a JavaScriptExecutor to execute "window.focus()" in javascript to force the window to be focused just before you perform another action. Then, you can close the popup by its window handle name if necessary.