How could I start a Selenium browser(like Firefox) minimized?

Question

How could I start a Selenium browser (like Firefox) minimized? I want the command browser.start(mySettings) to start a browser minimized.

Answer 1

Dimension windowMinSize = new Dimension(100,100);
driver.manage().window().setSize(windowMinSize);

Answer 2

You can use:

driver.manage().window().maximize();

For example code snippet with chrome driver:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C://chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
baseUrl = "chrome://newtab/";
driver.manage().window().maximize().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

for Firefox use just "firefordriver.exe"

Answer 3

The workarounds mentioned in the post did not work for NodeWebKit browser, so as a workaround i had to use native C# code as mentioned below:

public static void MinimiseNWKBrowser(IWebDriver d)
{
    var body = UICommon.GetElement(By.TagName("body"), d);
    body.Click();
    string alt = "%";
    string space = " ";
    string down = "{DOWN}";
    string enter = "{ENTER}";
    SendKeys.SendWait(alt + space);
    for(var i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
    {
        SendKeys.SendWait(down);
    }
    SendKeys.SendWait(enter);            
}

So this workaround basically uses "ALT+SPACE" to bring up the browser action menu to select "MINIMIZE" from the options and presses "ENTER"

Answer 4

Your question does not say that why you want to run your test cases in minimized browser but unfortunately selenium do not provide any built-in function for the same.

Normally when we want to run test cases with maximized browser we use driver.manage().window().maximize();

No doubt there are several ways to minimize your window through code by using Java key event by using keyboard shortcuts for minimimzing window or by using JavaScriptExecuter but that too depend on which OS and language you are working.

One more thing you can try is HtmlUnitDriver.By using this you cant even see the browser, so that may also serve your purpose if you have a case of not opening the browser while execution of test cases.

Answer 5

driver.manage().window().minimize();

This should help minimize the window. You can also use "maximize" in place of "minimize" to maximize the window.

Answer 6

In php we can use JavaScript command to minimize the browser window.

$this->selenium->getEval("Minimize();");

and similar command for java :

browser.getEval("Minimize();");