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Switched to IE11 window times out [switchTo().window(handle)]

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OS: Windows 7 Selenium Version: 2.53 Browser: IE Browser Version: 11

Expected Behavior -

I am using C# code to change IE11 browser’s tab switch. so far i can open a new tab successfully, but when i switch the tab using the following command, my code gets stuck : browser.driver.switchTo().window(windowHandles.oldTab)

Is it a Selenium Bug, or is this the wrong syntax to Switch Window Handle?

when i debug the issue, i get the following exception after waiting a long time :

An exception of type 'OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException' occurred in WebDriver.dll but was not handled in user code

Additional information: The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub/session/36fa4074-3b34-4dea-9da8-c8278b135c4f/window timed out after 240 seconds.

The issue is described in detail here, Please take a look at last 2 comment in this thread : https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/55

Actual Behavior -

The driver object should Switch WindowsHandle. instead it stops at code line browser.driver.switchTo().window(windowHandles.newTab);

Steps to reproduce -

The code example is also written in the link.

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:10 (3 by maintainers)

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sophiaatifcommented, Jan 4, 2017

Hey guys im so sorry for not replying and the main reason is that i left that job and I couldn’t recall the solution, but I can vaguely recall that the issue was in logic, perhaps I was trying to access the new page before it got created or something like that, though now that i see the code here it doesnt look like that but the issue was only in logic and I corrected the order of calls. I hope it helps?

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bbealecommented, Jan 4, 2017

Hey @sophiaatif, I would be interested in seeing your workaround as well.

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