[🐛 Bug]: Edge in IE mode not working for selenium 4

[shinojnmp]

What happened?

I was testing the usage of Edge in IE mode with Selenium 3.141 and 4.1.4 and on both instance below error got displayed

Setup 1:

Selenium 4.1.4
IEDriver: 4.0.0 (x64,x86)

Opened Edge driver (localhost ) then got below error
Error :
"Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: Unexpected error launching Internet Explorer. Could not find an Internet Explorer window belonging to the process with ID 23304 within 10000 milliseconds."

Setup2:

Selenium 3.141.59
IEDriver: 4.0.0 (x64,x86)

Opened Edge driver (localhost ) then got below error
Error:
"Unexpected error launching Internet Explorer. Could not find an Internet Explorer window belonging to the process with ID 16072 within 10 milliseconds."

How can we reproduce the issue?

in Selenium 4.1.4
public static void main(String[] args)  {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\TEMP\\Setups\\Drivers\\IEDriverServer_Win32_4.0.0\\IEDriverServer.exe");
        InternetExplorerOptions ieOptions = new InternetExplorerOptions();
        ieOptions.attachToEdgeChrome();
        ieOptions.withAttachTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10));
        ieOptions.withEdgeExecutablePath("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe");     // Edge Browser directory path
        WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieOptions);
        driver.get("https://github.com/");
        driver.close();

    }


in selenium 3.141

public static void main(String[] args)  {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\TEMP\\Setups\\Drivers\\IEDriverServer_x64_4.0.0\\IEDriverServer.exe");
        InternetExplorerOptions edgeIe11Options = new InternetExplorerOptions();
        Map<String, Object> ops = (Map<String, Object>) edgeIe11Options.getCapability("se:ieOptions");
        ops.put("ie.edgechromium", true);
        ops.put("browserAttachTimeout",10);

        ops.put("ie.edgepath", "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe");     // Edge Browser directory path

        edgeIe11Options.introduceFlakinessByIgnoringSecurityDomains();
        edgeIe11Options.ignoreZoomSettings();
        edgeIe11Options.enablePersistentHovering();
        edgeIe11Options.takeFullPageScreenshot();
        edgeIe11Options.disableNativeEvents();
        edgeIe11Options.requireWindowFocus();
        edgeIe11Options.destructivelyEnsureCleanSession();

        edgeIe11Options.setCapability("ignoreProtectedModeSettings", true);
        edgeIe11Options.setUnhandledPromptBehaviour(UnexpectedAlertBehaviour.IGNORE);
        WebDriver driver;
        try {

            driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(edgeIe11Options);
            System.out.println("===" + driver.getWindowHandles().size());
            wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 25);
            driver.get("https://github.com/");
            driver.close();
        }catch(Exception ex){
            System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
        }
        System.out.println("test");

    }


output selenium 3.141:
Started InternetExplorerDriver server (64-bit)
4.0.0.0
Listening on port 29571
Only local connections are allowed
Unexpected error launching Internet Explorer. Could not find an Internet Explorer window belonging to the process with ID 16072 within 10 milliseconds.
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:17:03'
System info: host: 'XPE1-D36660', ip: '10.174.0.238', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_301'
Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver
remote stacktrace: 
test

Relevant log output

Console output for selenium 4.1.4

Started InternetExplorerDriver server (64-bit)
4.0.0.0
Listening on port 50805
Only local connections are allowed
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: Unexpected error launching Internet Explorer. Could not find an Internet Explorer window belonging to the process with ID 23304 within 10000 milliseconds.
Build info: version: '4.1.4', revision: '535d840ee2'
System info: host: 'XPE1-D36660', ip: '10.174.0.238', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_301'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver
Command: [null, newSession {capabilities=[Capabilities {browserName: internet explorer, se:ieOptions: {browserAttachTimeout: 10000, ie.edgechromium: true, ie.edgepath: C:\Program Files (x86)\Micr...}}], desiredCapabilities=Capabilities {browserAttachTimeout: 10000, browserName: internet explorer, ie.edgechromium: true, ie.edgepath: C:\Program Files (x86)\Micr..., se:ieOptions: {browserAttachTimeout: 10000, ie.edgechromium: true, ie.edgepath: C:\Program Files (x86)\Micr...}}}]
Capabilities {}
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:126)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:84)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:62)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:156)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.invokeExecute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:167)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:142)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:567)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:248)
	at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:188)
	at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:180)
	at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:156)
	at com.testing.testhooks.Setup.main(Setup.java:71)

Process finished with exit code 1

Operating System

Windows 10

Selenium version

Java 4.1.4

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Edge

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

IEDriver 4.0.0.0

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No

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[manu141]

@shinojnmp
you are adding browser timeout pls remove "ops.put("browserAttachTimeout",10);" and try it should work
it's working for me on the same version, 3.141 and 4+

[diemol]

I cannot reproduce this either. Thanks for the comment, @manu141

@shinojnmp please check the docs and be sure the setup is following the recommendations https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webdriver-chromium/ie-mode and also use driver.quit() instead of driver.close().

[diemol]

If the issue still happens, please provide a complete example with the latest version of Selenium.

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