Hi There,
I work on automation with robotframework and recently the browser is shutting down on its own without even specifying close browser. is anyone else facing the same? any fix?
python 3.11.1
robotframework 6.0.1
robotframework-seleniumlibrary 6.0.0
Hi Surekha,
When is “the browser is shutting down on its own”? is it after the test finished or during the test?
Also which Library are you using? SeleniumLibrary, Browser Library, another Library?
Which browser are you using?
Can you show the logs from Robot Framework just before and at the time the browser shut down? There is likely a clue as to what is happening there in the logs.
Dave.
Hi Dave ,
This is happening in macbook air m1 version - 12.5.1 for me . In windows it is working as expected .
The browser is shutting down after the test run is successful .
I am using library - robotframework-seleniumlibrary
driver is - chromedriver version 109 and browser version is allo 109
below are the log image for you reference along with some more data .
Thanks
Praveen Kumar
Hi Praveen,
There is no error there in your screenshot
Check your test case for Close All Browsers, Close Browser or Close Window, if you have one of those it could be expected the browser is closed at the end of the test?
This is quite an old thread so your issue might be different to the OP, it’s best you create your own thread, and provide details about what you are getting, what you expected, an example test that shows the issue (if you can’t post the real test) and logs (in text not screenshots, is best) showing any errors you are getting
Unfortunately you haven’t provided any useful information that would help anyone figure out your problem,
Dave.
Hi Dave ,
Created a new thread “chrome browser is closing afgetr the test run in macbook air m1”
Please have a look and let me know if you need any extra details there itself .
Thanks
Praveen Kumar
Hi @damies13 @praveen167
today i have installed robot framework in my machine and i have started execution and i haven’t used any teardown or close browsers and close all browsers but browser is immediatly closing after execution fail/pass
I believe at some point there was a change to Selenium or the Selenium Web drivers that now auto closes the browser when the process ends, this is beyond the control of robot framework or Selenium Library as it’s an upstream project that has made this change.
This Stack overflow thread talks about it happening when using selenium’s python module, their workaround was to pass a detach=true to webdriver.ChromeOptions() I guess you could try that with SeleniumLibrary and hopefully that will work.
Dave.
