I'm writing a chrome extension.
When i click the browser action button in the first time - all goes well.
When i click the browser action button the second time, after several minutes of not clicking it, it takes more than 10 seconds until the popup is shown.
I've tried commenting out all of the periodic methods in the background and all of the methods in the load event of the popup, but it still doesn't shown immediately.
any suggestions?
I had a similar issue with the popup when I was adding an iframe to the popup. Chrome would wait with showing the popup until that iframe was loaded.
For me the fix was wrapping the code that added the iframe to the HTML in:
setTimeout(function(){
// Code here
},0);
This way Chrome showed the popup first, after which it begin with loading the iframe.
Maybe you have a similar problem?
i have seen this behavior before when you have a long running ajax call that you are doing on popup load.. hard to tell further without code samples or description of what you are doing
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I'm new to using Watir and have a problem. Within my browser page there is an option to add a note. This brings up a window within the browser which has the following id:
span id="ui-id-2" class="ui-dialog-title">Add Note</span
I can't work out how to use the controls within this window such as the 'Save' button as Watir doesn't seem to recognise either the window or the controls
So if I wanted to use same type of Save button within the main browser it would be fine; I'd just use browser.button(:id=> "Save").click.
Trying to use it within the popup though won't work as Watir can't recognise it within the popup. Any ideas appreciated!
How are you supposed to handle navigation within an extension popup?
I tried to make a button that when clicked calls a function that sets window.location.href to newpage.html, but it does nothing.
I know there's a browser.browserAction.setPopup function, but going off the description of it that only seems applicable for setting the first page when opening the extension, and not for navigation.
Intro
I have a chrome extension I am working on, that uses the background page to listen to the following window and tab events:
chrome.tabs.onActivated
chrome.tabs.onUpdated
chrome.windows.onFocusChanged
The background process basically retrieves the HTML source from each qualifying page the user visits, via a content script injection and messaging.
Once the message with the HTML source is received in the background page, it performs specific tests which may take anywhere from few to several of seconds, depending on the source size.
The Problem
I found that each time I click on the extension icon to open the popup.html view, it renders my background page again and runs the HTML collection and analysis. The issue is the popup view window doesn't open until the background has finished, which on certain pages may take 5-10 seconds.
I tried running the entire background page async with setTimeout(function(){..},0) which didn't work..
How can I solve this?
Is there a way that the popup page will not render the background again? This happens anyway when the user views the tab, so I don't need it?
If not, is there a way for the popup to display regardless of the background operation?
any other suggestions?
Thanks!
So I'm writing a watir-webdriver test script, and my webpage is using javascript:window.print to present a modal window that I want to interact with. When I click the link that presents the modal window, watir-webdriver just sits there until eventually it times out and i see a Timeout::Error on the console window. This is before attempting to interact with the new window at all. how do I tell it to move on without waiting?
After that whole execution is not responsive. Its not proceeding with next execution it gets struck there. tried the below solution too
element.focus element.send_keys :return
but no luck, Could anyone know how to resolve this modal dialogbox from webpage.
Thanks
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I am using Firefox with Watir-webdriver.
browser.a:(:href => 'javascript:window.print()').click
this opens the Print dialog box. Which is the normal print dialog box from teh Firefox browser.
It just waits here and doesn't execute anything after that till i click manually or it timesout.
I have a page where I open a "modal window". It is really just a DIV, with an IFRAME inside, where I load another page. When I want to refresh the page, the browser pops up a window saying "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page? Reloading this page will cause the modal window to disappear. Press OK to continue, or Cancel to stay on the current page."
How does this message get generated? How does the browser figure out that I have a modal window there, because I don't use any window.open() call from JavaScript? Is there any way to disable this behavior of the browser.
It may be body.onunload in the source of the page loaded in the IFRAME.
As the modal window is essentially an IFRAME, then when you close (or refresh) the main window, the browser knows it is killing that IFRAME, hence any body.onunload in that IFRAME fires.
If you have a function that handel onbeforeunload, automaticaly the Firefox message is generated.
you can disable it by returning null at the and of your handler.
This could be caused by some script modifying all off-site links to display this modal window, and then return true, or return false based upon your interaction with the modal window.
If you want to strip that behavior, you could remove all click events for external links.