I am trying to run IE Mode on Edge. When the browser instance loads, it gets stuck on
This is the initial start page for the WebDriver server
Selenium Version - 4.18.1
I am using the below args. when initializing the browser.
admin_ie_options = webdriver.IeOptions()
admin_ie_options.add_argument('--ie-mode-test')
admin_ie_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
admin_ie_options.add_argument("--ignore-zoom-setting")
admin_ie_options.add_argument("--ignore-protected-mode-settings")
admin_ie_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
admin_ie_options.add_argument('--disable-software-rasterizer')
admin_ie_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
admin_ie_options.add_argument('--disable-extensions')
d = webdriver.Ie(options=admin_ie_options)
d.maximize_window()
d.get(url) #Any URL
NOTE: It works fine if, I am not running the browser in Admin Mode, however my use case needs the browser to run in Admin Mode.
P.S: I have tried the answers mentioned here, didn't work :( Selenium IE Webdriver stuck at "This is the initial start page for the WebDriver server." with IE11 IE driver 4.0.0 stuck at This is the initial start page for the WebDriver server
Edit1:
As @KendrickLi mentioned this is not possible to achieve currently. Refer -> (https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/EdgeWebDriver/issues/87)
These 2 lines
admin_ie_options.add_argument("--ignore-zoom-setting")
admin_ie_options.add_argument("--ignore-protected-mode-settings")
should be changed into
admin_ie_options.ignore_protected_mode_settings = True
admin_ie_options.ignore_zoom_level = True
because they are not the valid arguments for Microsoft Edge.
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If the issue still occurs, you can simply replace the initial start page with your URL:
admin_ie_options.initial_browser_url = 'url'
and d.get(url)
can be removed in this way.