Selenium Force Close Firefox - selenium

Question

ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile ff = profile.getProfile("ScreenCapture");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ff);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get(url);
Thread.sleep(8000);
File srcFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
driver.quit();
Shouldn't driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS); force a close of the selenium generated Firefox browser after 15 seconds? The browser just sits and says its transferring data for an hour+. Basically just hangs saying its transferring...
I am capturing ajax heavy pages which is why Im asking everything to wait for 8 seconds after page loads. But that should have nothing to do with the driver forcing a close after 15 seconds.
Where am I going wrong?
Details: Centos x64 6.4 with Firefox 10.0.12 and latest Selenium as of 10 min ago.
Is there something I can do in Java to go around this?
Question: How can I force close the Selenium generated Firefox window after N seconds?

Answer 1

If you use Junit along with Java, then some thing like this :-
#After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
driver.quit();
String verificationErrorString = verificationErrors.toString();
if (!"".equals(verificationErrorString)) {
fail(verificationErrorString);
}
}
Note :-
To get a full skeleton of how it should be written just download the selenium IDE for FF and export some test case to Java /jUnit.

Answer 2

My linux knowledge is limited, but you can kill a process by running the linux command pkill.
driver.quit();
Thread.sleep(15000); //use a poll loop instead to check process running every 1 sec
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
rt.exec("pkill firefox");
I think that the java process will need to have enough permissions to kill a process, but haven't tried it.

Answer 3

To follow up on Ardesco's comment, an example would look as follows:
ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile ff = profile.getProfile("ScreenCapture");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ff);
driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
try {
driver.get(url);
} catch (TimeoutException e) {
System.out.println("15 seconds were over, force continue!");
} finally {
File srcFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
driver.quit();
}
The try part will run the request but when the timeout time set with pageLoadTimeout has been exceeded an exception is thrown which we catch. The finally part will be run regardless if the requested page was loaded properly in less than 15 seconds or whether an exception was thrown.

Answer 4

Implicit waits will not force a close of a browser after 15 seconds.
Implicit waits are used when trying to find elements in the DOM, they are not used when trying to load a page. If you want Selenium to stop trying to load a page after 15 seconds you will need to set a pageLoadTimeout, it's used like this:
driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
The default page load timeout is 0 (which means wait indefinitely), hence the behaviour that you are seeing.
(There is obviously an assumption here that the driver binary you are using has implemented this method.)
The JavaDoc for timeouts in Selenium is available Here