Difference between webdriver Dispose Close and Quit

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What is the difference between these   Webdriver Close   Webdriver Quit   Webdriver Dispose     Which one to be used and when

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close   - Suppose you have opened multiple browser windows with same driver instance  now calling close   on the driver instance will close the current window the driver instance is pointed to  But the driver instance still remain in memory and can be used to handle other open browser windows   quit   - If you call quit   on the driver instance and there are one or more browser windows open  it will close all the open browser windows and the driver instance is garbage collected i e  removed from the memory  So now you cannot use this driver instance to do other operation after calling quit   on it  If you do it will throw an Exception   dispose   - I don t think there is a dispose method for a WebDriver instance   You can go to the this selenium official java doc link for reference

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My understanding is driver close    will close the current browser  and driver quit    will terminate all the browser that

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Close   - It is used to close the browser or page currently which is having the focus   Quit   - It is used to shut down the web driver instance or destroy the web driver instance Close all the windows    Dispose   - I am not aware of this method

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close   is a webdriver command which closes the browser window which is currently in focus  Despite the familiar name for this method  WebDriver does not implement the AutoCloseable interface   During the automation process  if there are more than one browser window opened  then the close   command will close only the current browser window which is having focus at that time  The remaining browser windows will not be closed  The following code can be used to close the current browser window   quit   is a webdriver command which calls the driver dispose method  which in turn closes all the browser windows and terminates the WebDriver session  If we do not use quit   at the end of program  the WebDriver session will not be closed properly and the files will not be cleared off memory  This may result in memory leak errors   If the Automation process opens only a single browser window  the close   and quit   commands work in the same way  Both will differ in their functionality when there are more than one browser window opened during Automation   For Above Ref   click here  Dispose Command Dispose   should call Quit    and it appears it does  However  it also has the same problem in that any subsequent actions are blocked until PhantomJS is manually closed   Ref Link

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Based on an issue on Github of PhantomJS  the quit   does not terminate PhantomJS process   You should use    import signal driver   webdriver PhantomJS service args service args    Do your work here  driver service process send signal signal SIGTERM  driver quit     link

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driver close and driver quit are two different methods for closing the browser session in Selenium WebDriver  Understanding both of them and knowing when to use each method is important in your test execution  Therefore  I have tried to shed some light on both of these methods   driver close - This method closes the browser window on which the focus is set  Despite the familiar name for this method  WebDriver does not implement the AutoCloseable interface   driver quit     This method basically calls driver dispose a now internal method which in turn closes all of the browser windows and ends the WebDriver session gracefully   driver dispose - As mentioned previously  is an internal method of WebDriver which has been silently dropped according to another answer - Verification needed  This method really doesn t have a use-case in a normal test workflow as either of the previous methods should work for most use cases   Explanation use case  You should use driver quit whenever you want to end the program  It will close all opened browser windows and terminates the WebDriver session  If you do not use driver quit at the end of the program  the WebDriver session will not close properly and files would not be cleared from memory  This may result in memory leak errors   The above explanation should explain the difference between driver close and driver quit methods in WebDriver  I hope you find it useful    The following website has some good tips on selenium testing   Link

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Difference between driver close    amp  driver quit    driver close     It closes the the browser window on which the focus is set   driver quit     It basically calls driver dispose method which in turn closes all the browser windows and ends the WebDriver session gracefully

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quit    Quits this driver  closing every associated window that was open   close     Close the current window  quitting the browser if it s the last window currently open

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Selenium WebDriver   WebDriver Close   This method is used to close the current open window  It closes the current open window on which driver has focus on   WebDriver Quit   This method is used to destroy the instance of WebDriver  It closes all Browser Windows associated with that driver and safely ends the session  WebDriver Quit   calls Dispose  WebDriver Dispose   This method closes all Browser windows and safely ends the session

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This is a good question I have seen people use Close   when they shouldn t  I looked in the source code for the Selenium Client  amp  WebDriver C  Bindings and found the following    webDriver Close   - Close the browser window that the driver has focus of    webDriver Quit   - Calls Dispose        webDriver Dispose   Closes all browser windows and safely ends the session   The code below will dispose the driver object  ends the session and closes all browsers opened during a test whether the test fails or passes    public IWebDriver Driver    SetUp  public void SetupTest         Driver   WebDriverFactory GetDriver        TearDown  public void TearDown         if  Driver    null        Driver Quit        In summary ensure that Quit   or Dispose   is called before exiting the program  and don t use the Close   method unless you re sure of what you re doing    Note I found this question when try to figure out a related problem why my VM s were running out of harddrive space  Turns out an exception was causing Quit   or Dispose   to not be called every run which then caused the appData folder to fill the hard drive  So we were using the Quit   method correctly but the code was unreachable  Summary make sure all code paths will clean up your unmanaged objects by using exception safe patterns or implement IDisposable  Also In the case of RemoteDriver calling Quit   or Dispose   will also close the session on the Selenium Server  If the session isn t closed the log files for that session remain in memory

[selenium-webdriver] Difference between webdriver.Dispose(), .Close() and .Quit()

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