OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: ‘Cannot start the driver service on http://localhost:20548/’

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: ‘Cannot start the driver service on http://localhost:20548/‘ As for this issue, It could be the case that a process of the WebDriver is still running in the background. Please try to fire up Task Manager to see and end it if does. Otherwise, you could try to use the following code to assign the … Read more

XMLHttpRequest: Network Error 0x80070005, Access is denied on Microsoft Edge (but not IE)

This problem should no longer exist for developers using Microsoft Edge. If you experience issues with localhost testing, navigate to about:flags, and make sure Allow localhost loopback is checked. Microsoft Edge does not currently support (out of the box) localhost testing. You can however enable it by following the guidance provided here: http://dev.modern.ie/platform/faq/how-can-i-debug-localhost/. We’re working … Read more

How to target Edge browser with javascript

Try to detect features instead of a specific browser. It’s more future-proof. Only rarely should you use browser detection. With that out of the way: one option is to use a library (there are many intricacies to User Agent strings), or alternatively to parse window.navigator.userAgent manually. Using a parser library # https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js. var parser = … Read more

Add new Microsoft Edge to web browser control?

UPDATE Jan 2021: WebView2 has been released. This enables integration of the Chromium based Edge as a web control. It’s a lot more complicated to use, unfortunately, but a lot more powerful. Works with WinForms or WPF or C++ apps. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ UPDATE May 2018: FINALLY Microsoft has made it easy. https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/05/09/modern-webview-winforms-wpf-apps/ For now, the new … Read more

Selenium and Edge Dev (Chromium based)

Just got it working. My setup is a little different from yours because I’m using a grid, but it should be fairly similar. For me, when requesting a driver from the grid I use the chrome capabilities: m_capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome(); m_capability.setCapability( “browserName”, “chrome” ); So in your case I guess you’ll want this instead: driver … Read more

Microsoft Edge blocked cross-domain requests sent to IPs in same private network CIDR

From Understanding Enhanced Protected Mode Private Network resources Because EPM does not declare the privateNetworkClientServer capability, your Intranet resources are protected from many types of cross-zone attacks (usually called “Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (CSRF)” and “Intranet Port Scanning.”) Internet pages are not able to frame Intranet pages, load images or resources from them, send them CORS XHR requests, … Read more

Is there a Selenium WebDriver available for the Microsoft Edge browser?

Yes, there is a WebDriver implementation for Microsoft Edge. Its initial availability was announced on 23 July 2015. Language bindings in the Selenium open source project have been updated to take advantage of this driver implementation, and those updates have been released in Selenium 2.47. Note that the Java language bindings were re-released as 2.47.1 … Read more