How to avoid the pop-up window in chrome browser with Selenium

Question

When ever I run my script it opens the chrome browser and shows pop-up like 'browser or delete search activity data'. It's displaying two buttons like "no thanks" and "show me" buttons. This is my code, please provide any solution to help me overcome this problem.

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\softwares\\selenium\\webdrivers\\chromedriver.exe");

WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();

driver.get("http://google.com");

driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.findElement(By.className("gb_1 gb_nd gb_od")).click();

Thread.sleep(3000);

System.out.println(driver.getTitle());

driver.findElement(By.id("fakebox-input")).sendKeys("facebook");

Answer 1

Hi Naresh, its actually pretty easy to handle pop-ups in chrome browser using Alert in Selenium Webdriver. Though its not possible to avoid the pop-up, you can use following code-snippet to handle it:

// Accepts (Click on OK) Alert 
Alert alertOK = driver.switchTo().alert();
alertOK.accept();

//Rejects (Click on Cancel) Alert.
Alert alertCancel = driver.switchTo().alert();
alertCancel.dismiss();

I hope this helps!

Check out the Selenium Certification course for more details.

Thanks!

Answer 2

Alert alertCancel = driver.switchTo().alert();