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Hallway
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My Chrome browser just updated from v53.0.2785.143m to Version 54.0.2840.71 m, and all of a sudden I can't run reports inrAppStudio to Chrome or FireFox. When I go to the Output Viewer Settings, select Chrome and click on Test Browser Setup, a new Chrome window opens with a dialog box stating: Webdriver test status Failed to communicate with browser



I am on v8015m of AppStudio.


Has anyone else encountered this?

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I am on WebFOCUS 8.1.05 with your version of Chrome and I'm not experiencing any problems.


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CoolGuy
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Squatch,

We fixed running from Chrome by updating the chromedriver.exe file to the latest version. We are still unable to run from FireFox v49.02...


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Hallway
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I found a fix for anyone that might be experiencing this.

  • Go to ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome
  • Click on the latest release which supports Chrome v53-55
  • Choose the operating system that you are using to download a zip file with chromedriver.exe
  • For windows I replaced the current chromedriver.exe in the C:\ibi\AppStudio81\bin directory


This seems to have corrected the issue that me and my coworkers were experiencing in Chrome.

Still looking for a FireFox fix

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What does the "Test Browser Setup" do for Firefox?


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We went to 8.1.05 about a year ago... I take it the "m" in 8.1.05m is why you are having this issue and I am not? Something for me to look forward to?


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CoolGuy
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Squatch,

It was Chrome and FireFox related (for the most part). Chrome just needed an updated driver, and FireFox is only supported up to version 47 with AppStudio due to AppStudio implementing the older webdriver system versus the newer geckodriver.exe way.

You can revert back to version 46 by getting and installing it from this link:

FF 46


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Francis,

It does a check to see if the webdriver configuration works with FireFox. Which it doesn't past v47.


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Originally posted by Francis Mariani:
What does the "Test Browser Setup" do for Firefox?


When using version FireFox that is later than v47.0.1, the "Test Browser Setup" opens a FireFox page that says "problem Loading Page." After it times out, the following error shows:



After rolling back to FireFox v47.0.1 from v49.0.2 it is working again. You can find any version of FireFox here https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

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Wep5622
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Originally posted by Francis Mariani:
What does the "Test Browser Setup" do for Firefox?


What I've been able to determine from my tests: AS attempts to inject an unsigned add-on into the browser and Firefox refuses to accept it.

It seems to me a rather roundabout way to open an URL to begin with... It's probably done like that so that unsaved procedures can be tested as well, but there should be easier ways to achieve that then by injecting an add-on.


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Hallway
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**UPDATE**

So it looks like the issue with FireFox has been corrected in 8201M. I still had v47 of FireFox on my PC due to the deprecated code in 8105M, and after migrating to 8201M, my FireFox stopped working again. So I updated my FF to the latest (54.0.1) and it started working again.

Just FYI for anyone that might be having issues.


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