IEDriverServer does not work with IE11 on Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 x64

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 7516

Also see case 7440:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
run the following unit test on visual studio 2013 test explorer on windows 8.1 x64
or 2012 R2 against the default IE version:
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("demo.asna.com/carolina");            
            driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();            
            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
            wait.Until<IWebElement>((d) => { return d.FindElement(By.Id("AppBody__HomeMenu_B1_S1"));
});
            driver.FindElement(By.Id("AppBody__HomeMenu_B1_S1")).Click();
            wait.Until<IWebElement>((d) => { return d.FindElement(By.Id("AppBody__BodySize"));
});

Second wait crashes because the click event never is executed. Another note: We cannot
certify our software as fully supported on IE11 just because of this, we would have
to look for other software available on the market and translate all our test.

Selenium version: strong named API version 2.42 C#
OS: Windows 8.1 x64
Browser: Internet Explorer
Browser version: 11.0.9600.17107 (update version 11.0.8)

Any suggestions or questions please don't doubt on asking.

Thanks,
Carlos Ocasio
QA and RE Manager @ ASNA inc.

Reported by Carlos.Ocasio on 2014-06-18 15:11:20

[lukeis]

I'd like to point out one thing, the click is on a div with ID of "AppBody__HomeMenu_B1_S1"
but that div does not have any visible onclick events attached to you... are you sure
you do not want to be clicking on the image with ID of "AppBody__HomeMenu_B1_S1_B1"
that has a JS event attached to it?

Reported by Dima.Kovalenko on 2014-06-18 16:12:55

[lukeis]

Using your sample code, on 64-bit Windows 8.1 (Professional, but shouldn't matter),
using the latest 32-bit IEDriverServer.exe (2.42.0.1 - available at http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/cpp/prebuilt/Win32/Release/),
I do not see the problem described here. I am using IE 11.0.9600.17126 (update version
11.0.9). 

Reported by james.h.evans.jr on 2014-06-18 16:31:23

• Status changed: NeedsClarification

[lukeis]

Dima.Kov...@gmail.com, yes please my bad use, id AppBody__HomeMenu_B1_S1_B1 to click
the image.

Reported by Carlos.Ocasio on 2014-06-18 21:47:22

[lukeis]

Once we upgraded our server from 2008 to 2012 R2 selenium in IE stopped working properly.
There are definitely issues there. Some tests pass but then they start failing. Once
tests start failing it seems that Selenium stops releasing the browser so all consecutive
tests are failing and the temp files are locked forever.

Reported by vldksrv on 2014-06-20 12:44:28

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2014-06-23 20:58:39

• Labels added: Browser-IE

[lukeis]

Any fix for this issue?, I still unable to run test with selenium on IE11. 

Reported by Carlos.Ocasio on 2014-07-14 23:48:09

[lukeis]

Have you tuned the registry as described in [1] ?

[1] https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver#Required_Configuration

Reported by barancev on 2014-07-15 11:41:02

[lukeis]

Yes, barancev, I make sure 'enable enhanced protected mode' and 'enable 64 bit processes
for enhanced mode' are disable, protected mode is not set on all zones, IEDriverServer.exe
directory is on the PATH environmental variable, require registry key is set.

Reported by Carlos.Ocasio on 2014-07-15 19:46:59