Selenium selectWindow does not find window opened with openWindow

Question

in Selenium IDE on FireFox 11, I use

openWindow | ${myURL} | receiverWindow
selectWindow | receiverWindow

and I get

[info] Executing: |selectWindow | receiverWindow | |
[debug] Command found, going to execute selectWindow
[debug] getWindowByName(receiverWindow)
[debug] getWindowNameByTitle(receiverWindow)
[error] Could not find window with title receiverWindow

With FireBug, I looked into the DOM of the sucessfully opened window and found a top-level entry: seleniumWindowName | "receiverWindow"

So, it looks like selenium seems to have stored the WindowID somehow but seems to look other places than where it was stored.

I also tried selectWindow | "receiverWindow" (with quotes) but with no success.

What am I not getting right here?

Does it work in any other way? Could you please try with Firefox 10? There have been several problems with Firefox 11 as Selenium is not yet fully compatible with it. — Petr Janeček
Tried FF9 now, because I could not find a FF10 for Mac download. But it is the same there. (Sorry for replying late, the mail escaped me) — Heiko Haller

Rick Johnson Rick Johnson · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-20T23:10:25

If you use the openWindowAndWait command instead of the openWindow command, does the subsequent selectWindow step succeed?

You may also need to specify ${receiverWindow} to reference the variable in the selectWindow step.

Selenium selectWindow does not find window opened with openWindow

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