It's still there in IE8. whether it enables or not depends on several things, browsing local subnet sites vs internet, settings for UAC if running of Vista or Win7, and if you started IE 'as administrator' or not.
What I've found sometimes solves this kind of issue is to go into the Internet Security Properties UI and set all the zones that may be encountered when running a script to the same zone, most often 'trusted' Then also make sure your homepage, and the page displayed when any new tab is opened are also set the same way, that includes 'about:blank' and 'about:tabs. Another thing that can sometimes make a difference is opening up your command line session (that you run your scripts from) 'as administrator' as this can affect the security settings in an IE session launched via that CMD window. What's happening is that as a type of protection against cross site scripting attacks, whenever the browser changes security zones, it basically destroys the instance that was running in the old context, and creates a new one. When that happens the underlaying identification of the window changes, and watir looses connection to the browser. You need to either attach, or use the watir-webdriver methods to change to the appropriate browser window just as you would have to do if you had closed and re-opened IE. That's probably not accurate in a very technical sense, but it's close enough to understand the nature of the problem. For more info, see here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/03/11/ie8-and-loosely-coupled-ie-lcie.aspx and/or do a bunch of googling for protected/protection mode and IE8 On Oct 18, 10:45 am, RJ <rj412....@gmail.com> wrote: > Getting following error msg: > Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchDriverError: Unexpected error > launching Internet Explorer. Protected Mode must be set to the same > value (enabled or disabled) for all zones. > > but this feature is not available on XP-IE8. What to do. > > Thanks, > RJ -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
