Yes, I saw this behavior when working on the error checkers. We discussed it here: https://github.com/watir/watir-webdriver/issues/280#issuecomment-59587241
Your code would work fine for Chrome, but Firefox always closes the alert when it throws the error. Titus On Jul 21, 2015 8:31 AM, "Eihiko O" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using watir-webdriver with firefox and Ruby 2.0.0. I'm trying to use > browser.goto() to redirect away from a (facebook) page with unsubmitted > text. An "are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?" alert > pops up, which causes an UnhandledAlertError to be thrown. I tried handling > the error with code along these lines: > > begin > browser.goto "https://www.facebook.com"; > rescue UnhandledAlertError > browser.alert.ok > end > > But this does not work because for some reason, the alert is being closed > before my rescue code can handle it. Any idea what might be causing it? > > -- > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > [email protected] > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Watir General" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
