Question

How do I set chromedriver to run without any extensions via Capybara env.rb?

Here is my env.rb

require 'capybara'
require 'capybara/cucumber'
require 'rspec'
require 'selenium/webdriver'
#require 'capybara/rails'

caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome #chrome|firefox
caps.version = "8"
caps.platform = :WINDOWS

Capybara.server_port = 3001
Capybara.app_host = "http://www.google.com"
Capybara.default_driver = :selenium
Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements = false
Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
    Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app,
    :browser => :chrome #chrome|firefox
    #,
    #:url => "localhost:4444/wd/hub",
    #:desired_capabilities => caps
    )
end

Thanks in advance for the assistance!

Answer 1

So the answer I think is what Andrey Botalov said.

In my case the problem is that I installed a viral software called Conduit. While posing as legitimate software, it is nearly impossible to remove without some sort of anti-virus.

What was happening is in each instance of lauching chromedriver to run a test, conduit would load NewTabAPI.js onto the new chromdriver. This in turn launched a crappy toolbar. In my case InternetHelper1.5.

At the time of kill NewTabAPI.js had multiple copies sitting in the \Users[user]\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_directory_….

Removing these killed the virus, but I found a number of conduit directories sitting about that I felt prudent to remove as well.

Anyway, that’s what I needed to do in my case. In most cases Andrey’s comment should do just fine and answers my question.