I've replicated this Watir Webdriver problem in Ruby 1.9.2 with IE8 and 1.9.3 with IE9; it does not seem to happen if I use Chrome or Firefox. The OS is Windows 7 (64 bit).
When I use Watir Webdriver to click certain links, the action completes successfully (in that the browser goes to the href of the link) but it looks as though the click event keeps on firing for ever. This is most obvious in cases where mousing over the link causes a drop-down menu to appear: after the link is clicked, the drop-down remains visible until the browser is closed (providing of course you are looking at a page that contains that link).
The real showstopper for me is that once this has happened, I can't click any other links. The only way I have found to get IE back into a normal state is to close and re-open the browser.
An example:
require 'rubygems'
require 'watir-webdriver'
include Watir
b=Browser.new :ie
# This produces the following output:
# Started InternetExplorerDriver server (64-bit)
# 2.28.0.0
# Listening on port 5555
# => #<Watir::Browser:0x..fe85636c0 url="http://localhost:5555/" title="WebDriver">
b.goto 'www.net-a-porter.com'
b.link(:text,'Designers').click
At this point, IE shows the page I would expect (http://www.net-a-porter.com/Shop/AZDesigners) but the Designers drop-down is still visible, which it shouldn't be, and href of the original link still shows in IE's status bar.
At first I assumed it was a bug with this specific website, but a similar thing happens on yahoo.com, using the following code:
b.goto 'www.yahoo.com'
b.link(:text,'Sport').click
The Yahoo! Sport page loads, but the URL keeps flickering in the status bar and the "Football" drop-down menu is appearing. Here's a screenshot to show you whar I mean:
Now, when I resized the browser to take that screenshot, I noticed different menus appeared as the margins reduced and content shifted to the left to fit into the smaller space available. So it seems there is a stray mouse click that keeps repeating in the same location.
Could this be a bug in Watir Webdriver or Selenium perhaps?
Here's my gem list:
- addressable (2.3.2)
- builder (3.1.4)
- bundler (1.2.3)
- childprocess (0.3.6)
- coderay (1.0.8)
- columnize (0.3.6)
- commonwatir (4.0.0, 2.0.4)
- cucumber (1.2.1)
- debugger (1.2.3, 1.2.2)
- debugger-linecache (1.1.2)
- debugger-ruby_core_source (1.1.6, 1.1.5)
- diff-lcs (1.1.3)
- differ (0.1.2)
- ffi (1.2.0 x86-mingw32)
- gherkin (2.11.5 x86-mingw32)
- highline (1.6.15)
- hoe (3.4.0)
- hpricot (0.8.6)
- json (1.7.6, 1.7.5)
- libwebsocket (0.1.7.1)
- logger (1.2.8)
- method_source (0.8.1)
- mini_magick (3.4, 3.2.1)
- minitest (4.3.3, 1.6.0)
- multi_json (1.5.0)
- mysql2 (0.3.11 x86-mingw32)
- nokogiri (1.5.6 x86-mingw32)
- pg (0.14.1 x86-mingw32)
- pry (0.9.10 i386-mingw32)
- pry-doc (0.4.4)
- rake (10.0.3, 0.8.7)
- rautomation (0.8.0, 0.7.3, 0.6.3)
- rbx-require-relative (0.0.9)
- rdoc (3.12, 2.5.8)
- rspec (2.12.0)
- rspec-core (2.12.2)
- rspec-expectations (2.12.1)
- rspec-mocks (2.12.1, 2.12.0)
- rubygems-update (1.8.24)
- rubyzip (0.9.9)
- s4t-utils (1.0.4)
- selenium-webdriver (2.27.2)
- slop (3.3.3)
- subexec (0.2.2, 0.0.4)
- user-choices (1.1.6.1)
- watir (4.0.2 x86-mingw32, 2.0.4)
- watir-classic (3.3.0)
- watir-webdriver (0.6.2)
- websocket (1.0.6, 1.0.5)
- win32-api (1.4.8 x86-mingw32)
- win32-process (0.7.0)
- win32console (1.3.2 x86-mingw32)
- win32screenshot (1.0.7)
- windows-api (0.4.2)
- windows-pr (1.2.2)
- xml-simple (1.1.2)
- yard (0.8.3)
