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Kashmir54
Kashmir54

Reputation: 135

How to prevent selenium from opening new firefox windows?

I am running Selenium Firefox Webdriver on Python for webscraping and when I am going around diferent pages, some of those have some mechanism that open new windows, something in the way of this:

$(function(){ 
    window.open(url, windowName[, windowFeatures]); 
});

And it is some kind of malicious webpage that keeps opening random pages on new windows and after some minutes my PC runs out of memory and crashes.

So want I want is to load some feature on the webdriver so it doesn't allow pages to open new windows.

I have tryed not to load JS but this feature is no longer working I guess. Also, if you know some option or preference to ignore script tags I would like to know it.

Thanks in advice.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 134

Answers (1)

Alex Stoicuta
Alex Stoicuta

Reputation: 902

Try loading a JS file just in your tests which overwrites the window.open function. Something like:

(function(){
    window.open = function() { return false; }
})();

Notice this is an immediatly invoked function exectution.

Upvotes: 1

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