Chrome and the Ranorex Plug-in Extension
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:04 pm
I'm having a very frustrating day.
The last time I ran my automation in Chrome was a long time ago and in a version before the Google extension security changes (so I ran in Chrome 29 or 30)... Everything worked great.
Today I couldn't get things working with what I had on my test client. Ranorex 4.0.6 and Chrome 34 (and to be clear, 34 was recently installed and we never attempted any runs on it before today). I assume that Ranorex 4.0.6 doesn't work with Chrome 34.
So I decided to do a test update on this system. I installed Ranorex 5.1.1 and Chrome 36. I'm in an environment where I don't have Internet access by default for security reasons. But I had it enabled so I could install Chrome and the Ranorex Extension. Everything seemed OK. Then the internet access was removed. Still everything seemed OK. Then after a few tests when I launched Chrome I had a message saying that the preferences profile was corrupt and not loading. So I guess it reverts to a clean slate, and so the Ranorex Extension is gone. Again, I enabled Internet access, managed to get the extension installed again, and again everything seemed OK. Then it happened again.
I'm not really sure why suddenly Chrome is getting a corrupted preferences profile. It 'might' be because when our test fails, we simply kill the chrome process. But that has always been how we run our scripts for all browsers, and never been an issue.
Do you have any ideas?
Is it possible to install the Ranorex extension without Internet access? Do you require Internet access for the extension to continue to work properly?
Aracknid
The last time I ran my automation in Chrome was a long time ago and in a version before the Google extension security changes (so I ran in Chrome 29 or 30)... Everything worked great.
Today I couldn't get things working with what I had on my test client. Ranorex 4.0.6 and Chrome 34 (and to be clear, 34 was recently installed and we never attempted any runs on it before today). I assume that Ranorex 4.0.6 doesn't work with Chrome 34.
So I decided to do a test update on this system. I installed Ranorex 5.1.1 and Chrome 36. I'm in an environment where I don't have Internet access by default for security reasons. But I had it enabled so I could install Chrome and the Ranorex Extension. Everything seemed OK. Then the internet access was removed. Still everything seemed OK. Then after a few tests when I launched Chrome I had a message saying that the preferences profile was corrupt and not loading. So I guess it reverts to a clean slate, and so the Ranorex Extension is gone. Again, I enabled Internet access, managed to get the extension installed again, and again everything seemed OK. Then it happened again.
I'm not really sure why suddenly Chrome is getting a corrupted preferences profile. It 'might' be because when our test fails, we simply kill the chrome process. But that has always been how we run our scripts for all browsers, and never been an issue.
Do you have any ideas?
Is it possible to install the Ranorex extension without Internet access? Do you require Internet access for the extension to continue to work properly?
Aracknid