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Mix
Mix

Reputation: 173

Possible issue with Chromedriver 78, Selenium can not find web element of PDF opened in Chrome

Until my google Chrome wasn't updated to version 78 my code worked fine. I also updated the chromedriver to version 78.0.3904.70. So I am not able anymore to find WebElement with id='plugin' using Selenium WebDriver and Java: 

<html>
<div id="content">
<embed id="plugin" type="application/x-google-chrome-pdf" src="http://??????????/offer_printed.php?printable=yes&amp;reanudar=&amp;>
</div>
</html>

Other than that part my tests are working fine. I never had a similar issue before. I also tried to find WebElement id='content' but I am receiving the same error. 

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait (driver, 90);
WebElement scrollvalid = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("plugin")));

scrollvalid.sendKeys(Keys.PAGE_DOWN);                       scrollvalid.sendKeys(Keys.PAGE_DOWN);

My automation script should find the PDF element and scroll the page down. Instead, I am receiving this error: org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException: Timed out after 90 seconds waiting for visibility of element located by By.id: plugin

Is anybody facing a similar issue? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 17

Views: 10386

Answers (9)

Sagar Bhavsar
Sagar Bhavsar

Reputation: 278

I had the same issue.

After auto-updating Chrome with version 78.0, my automated test scripts were failing. So I updated chromedriver to the 78 version, but driver was still not able to find any web element. After that I tried with multiple versions of chromedriver and finally my issue is resolved with chromedriver version 2.44.

This version can be found at https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.44/

Upvotes: 0

hfontanez
hfontanez

Reputation: 6168

I confirmed yesterday that this issue appears to manifest itself only when an element is contained in an iframe. In those cases, the iframe is located fine. However, attempting to locate a web element using the driver or web driver wait objects will result in a NoSuchElement or TimeoutException respectively.

I provided the chromedriver team a verbose chrome driver log and they are working on it.

UPDATE: From chromedriver issue 3223

The logs show that the final executionContextCreated for the frame doesn't complete until after the FindElement returns null. Starting in version 77, ChromeDriver stopped waiting for all frames to load before continuing navigation. Unfortunately, that change prevented a wait for the current frame to load. 3164 will all a wait for the current frame to load; this should prevent FindElement from searching until after the frame has Stopped loading and the executionContext is created.

Basically, this bug was introduced in v.77. Many of us just noticed this problem because we upgraded from v.76 to .v78. Word is that they are targeting a fix for .v80 (not v. 79). As a workaround, I am using Thread.sleep between the time I switch to the iframe and when I attempt to locate the component. This workaround works fine. In fact, you can verify this on your own by simply running your application in DEBUG mode. When you pause execution (by using a breakpoint), you'll notice that your original code (without the sleep) works fine.

Upvotes: 1

Mix
Mix

Reputation: 173

It turned out to be a problem with the Google Chrome, not chromedriver: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=3211

Upvotes: 0

DavidRYV
DavidRYV

Reputation: 45

I have faced the same issue when trying to access a tab inside an iframe , it used to work fine on version 76. Now that has updated itself to 78, it's failing. Have tried waits , implicit waits , sleep , locate the elements using xpath, CSS, id , switch context , scroll until view , etc.., with no luck. I'm using windows 10 , 1809. I don't know if this is happening in other OS.

Here is the question I raised :

Problem using chromedriver 78.0.3904.70 locators

Upvotes: 1

Oli Boorman-Humphrey
Oli Boorman-Humphrey

Reputation: 41

We have faced a similar issue with Chrome 78.0.3904.7, Chromedriver 77/78, Python Selenium 3.141.0.

In our automated Python Selenium tests, we've seen multiple failures where it appears that clicks on elements have not occurred. Even stranger, it appears that the element has become active (as if it were about to be clicked) but the the actual click event never occurred. As a result, page switches etc do not occur resulting in various downstream failures.

By a process of trail and error, we found that using the standard .click() function is now not reliable:

webdriver_element.click()

But using Action Chains does appears to be reliable:

ActionChains(context.browser).click(webdriver_element).perform()

It's not clear why this is the case. The failures began as soon as we upgraded to Chrome 78.0.3904.7. We're using Chromedriver 77.0.3865.90 but the same tests pass reliably on Chrome 77.x versions therefore it appears something is wrong or has changed in Chrome 78.

Upvotes: 3

wdtj
wdtj

Reputation: 5945

I've run into the same issue.

Apparently Chrome automatically updates itself. Yesterday (Oct 29 '19) My ChromeDriver started complaining that it was not compatible with Chrome 78. I updated the driver to the 78 version. I started to get random org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException exceptions when trying to find elements that I confirmed were there. The findElement[s] also work when I used breakpoints. I also tried implicit waits, with only limited success.

I tried zsbappa's ChromeOption solution but no joy.

Google makes it hard to get old versions of Chrome, but I found version 76 at https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-76-offline-installer/. Beware, the online installer installs the latest version. I reverted to the driver for 76 and all is good. All my Selenium tests are working again.

My conclusion is that the Chrome 78 and it's associated driver has a race condition where Selenium attempts to interrogate the web page before it's complete.

Upvotes: 5

Thiago
Thiago

Reputation: 1

You can Nuget package manager, delete Chrome drive and search for chrome, download the new version selenium.web.driver.ChromeDriver >> for jsaKamoto

there you find chrome version 78.

Upvotes: -1

Narasimhamurthy G N
Narasimhamurthy G N

Reputation: 145

For example: You can try using this keywords!.

1. implicit_wait=10
2. Sleep  10

Upvotes: 0

Zakaria Shahed
Zakaria Shahed

Reputation: 2697

By adding the following argument I have solved my problem.

   ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    options.addArguments("--disable-gpu");
    options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");
    options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
    options.addArguments("--window-size=1920,1080");
    options.merge(seleniumCapabilities);
    driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Upvotes: 1

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