Selenium Webdriver - Chrome - Switch Window and back - Unable to receive message from renderer

Question

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I am testing a web application with selenium Webdriver . It is payment webpage where, after selecting Payment method as 'PayPal' it opens up a new Popup , a PayPal popup and i Switch window to Paypal , do all my necessary Transaction. And once the Transaction is successful , automatically the paypal popup is closed, and i am not able to return to my original window from where i have initiated transaction.

I am getting following error in eclipse console:

Starting ChromeDriver (v2.9.248315) on port 25947
[70.164][SEVERE]: Unable to receive message from renderer

The following details might help :

• selenium Webdriver (2.28.0)
• java - JRE7
• Google Chrome Version - Version 33.0.1750.146
• Test Framework - Test NG

Here is my code :

              // To Switch to Popup/Paypal window

              String currentWindowHandle=driver.getWindowHandle();        

             Set<String> openWindowsList=driver.getWindowHandles();        
             String popUpWindowHandle=null;
             for(String windowHandle:openWindowsList)
             {
             if (!windowHandle.equals(currentWindowHandle))
             popUpWindowHandle=windowHandle;
             }

            driver.switchTo().window(popUpWindowHandle);      
    // Carraying out my paypal transaction        
            driver.manage().window().maximize();
            driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='loadLogin']")).click();

        Thread.sleep(8000);

        WebElement login_email = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='login_email']"));
        login_email.clear();
        login_email.sendKeys(Keys.BACK_SPACE);
        login_email.sendKeys("[email protected]");

        WebElement login_password = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='login_password']"));
        login_password.clear();
        login_password.sendKeys("abcxyz");
      // Next Click is Final Click on PayPal                        
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='submitLogin']")).click();
      // Transaction is finished on PayPal side and it automatically popup is closed
      //Now i am trying to switch to my last working(original) window
        driver.switchTo().window("My Web Page Title");

Solution 1

You should be using:

driver.switchTo().window(currentWindowHandle);

Solution 2

It causes because page took long time to load , you need add additional line to your chromedriver option.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","E:\\selenium\\chromedriver_2.41\\chromedriver.exe");
//mention the below chrome option to solve timeout exception issue
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setPageLoadStrategy(PageLoadStrategy.NONE);
// Instantiate the chrome driver
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Solution 3

The problem is resolved.

The place where I was declaring currentWindowHandle was after clicking and it takes the new window as the Current Window handle.

I just moved below statement to before the new window click event.

String currentWindowHandle=driver.getWindowHandle();

Thanks all for your time and Help.

Comments

[Nihir Kumar]

Thanks for your response. However the issue still persists. CurrentWindowHandle didn't worked. Still I am an not able to switch to my original window. Any more suggestions ? I would be glad to try