ForceCreateProcessApi doesn't start IE

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 7572

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. set the following keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE\iexplore.exe
to 0
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\TabProcGrowth to 0
2.  Try to start IE with ForceCreateProcessAPI = true

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
IE should start but it doesn't and the webdriver times out looking for it.


Selenium version: Webdriver 2.42 and IEDriverServer 2.42
OS: Windows 8.1
Browser: IE 
Browser version: 11.0.9600.17126


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InternetExplorerDriverService ieDriverService = InternetExplorerDriverService.CreateDefaultService(webDriverDir);
                    ieDriverService.LoggingLevel = InternetExplorerDriverLogLevel.Trace;
                    ieDriverService.LogFile = "c:\\jenkins\\iedriver.log";
                    var ieOptions = new InternetExplorerOptions();
                    ieOptions.ForceCreateProcessApi = true;
                    ieOptions.BrowserCommandLineArguments = "-private";
                    return new InternetExplorerDriver(ieDriverService, ieOptions);

Reported by RPWong on 2014-07-07 21:28:54

[lukeis]

Attached ie driver log 

Reported by RPWong on 2014-07-07 21:30:25

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- _Attachment: [iedriver.log](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/selenium/issue-7572/comment-1/iedriver.log)_

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2014-07-07 22:17:40

• Labels added: Browser-IE

[lukeis]

I can verify this error. This article[1] suggests that the problem may be with IE10
and IE11 when running 32-bit server:

"For IE10, we’ve changed IE such that Manager Processes always run as 64bit processes
when running on a 64bit processor running a 64bit version of Windows."

I tested with 64-bit version of IEDriverServer and TabProcGrowth=0 and it seems to
work fine.


[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2012/03/23/understanding-ie10-enhanced-protected-mode-network-security-addons-cookies-metro-desktop.aspx

Reported by lrekucki on 2014-09-11 23:07:46

[lukeis]

I am having the same problem, in that RemoteWebDriver times out waiting for a response
from IEDriverServer when ForceCreateProcessAPI = true. However, in my case, this only
happens with IE10 running on Windows 8.

Selenium version: Webdriver 2.44 and IEDriverServer 2.44
OS: Windows 8
Browser: IE 
Browser version: 10.0.9200.17183

IE11 in Windows 7 runs just fine with ForceCreateProcessAPI = true set.

Reported by dennish@safetec.net on 2015-01-15 23:36:44

[lukeis]

Another verification. I had this problem using IE11 on Windows 8.1 when using the 32
bit IEDriverServer 2.44.

Switching to the 64 bit IEDriverServer 2.44 got things working.

Reported by dan.corder@softwire.com on 2015-01-21 10:07:34

[lukeis]

Unfortunately using 64bit IEDriverServer as a workaround isn't viable for me because
of the slow sendKeys issue in 64bit (https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5116).

Reported by RPWong on 2015-02-04 00:01:40

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 17:47:03

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