Katalon always focuses the browser's address bar

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Hi!

After upgrading to Katalon 10.1.1. from 9.7.6. for every test I start Katalon focuses the browser’s address bar at the top.

This is no issue in most tests, but I have a few tests where I enter some sort of barcode via sendKey and submit via ENTER. The browser then just goes to whatever I “typed” into the address bar via google search and gives me the “are you a robot” warning.

I tried focusing something in the page to lose focus of the address bar but I it won’t work.

What I tried:

WebUI.focus(findTestObject('Object Repository/TestObject'));
...
WebUI.click(findTestObject('Object Repository/TestObject'));

I also cannot find anything related to this issue.

Any tips?

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Try this Test Case.

import com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.ConditionType
import com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.TestObject
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI

//
TestObject makeTestObject(String id, String xpath) {
	TestObject tObj = new TestObject(id)
	tObj.addProperty("xpath", ConditionType.EQUALS, xpath)
}

WebUI.openBrowser("https://www.google.com/")

TestObject body = makeTestObject("body", "//body")
WebUI.waitForElementVisible(body, 10)

WebUI.focus(body)
WebUI.click(body)

WebUI.closeBrowser()

This code workd fine for me.

Any HTML will have a body element, right?

So you should be able to focus on the body element.

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Hey! Thanks for the quick reply.

Unfortunately, the address bar is still selected.

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I also click a button after opening the browser, so I don’t know what the hell is going on. The address bar should lose focus.

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Me too…

I believe Katalon does nothing like this.

Something specail your browser might have.

Do you have any malicious browser plugin installed?

What happen if you use other browser (FirFox, Edge, Safari)?

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Weird, since the only thing I changed was to upgrade to Katalon 10.1.1. It was working before.

I disabled some plugins but I get the same result. And for some reason I cannot start my test in Firefox..

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Please check the .log of Katalon Studio.

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You may find something that indicates the cause.

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Have up updated the WebDriver of FF on your machine?

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Last error was

!ENTRY org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench 4 0 2025-03-31 10:56:46.270
!MESSAGE Widget is disposed
!STACK 0
org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Widget is disposed

but that’s like almost two hours ago.

I also tried

WebUI.sendKeys(findTestObject('Object Repository/backdrop'), Keys.chord(Keys.F6));
// and
WebUI.sendKeys(findTestObject('Object Repository/backdrop'), Keys.chord(Keys.ESCAPE));

since both defocus the address bar, without success.

I updated the Firefox webdrivers but still cannot start my test.

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: Expected browser binary location, but unable to find binary in default location, no 'moz:firefoxOptions.binary' capability provided, and no binary flag set on the command line
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See the following topic

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Hey! Sorry for not replying back yesterday.

I sadly cannot invest time into getting the tests to work in Firefox.

It seems as Katalon won’t recognize any clicks as “clicks that change focus” since I am clicking into login/password text fields and then pressing a submit button → which should remove focus from the address bar.

I also tried sending it CTRL+F6 but it still didn’t work.

WebUI.sendKeys(findTestObject('Object Repository/login_'), Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, Keys.F6));
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I have no more idea.

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Thanks for replying though - I’ll document my solution here if I solve this. Google already throws this thread as first result.

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I happend to read this:

There seems to be a bug in WebDriver. But the issue was not marked resolved. This issue was already closed due to limited conversation.

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I solved it. It was indeed an issue with a chrome flag.

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I deleted the --app=... flag and the url bar is no longer in focus. Prior to deletion I had two separate windows (one BiDi-CDP Mapper and my page) and now I have two tabs in one window.

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Thank you for sharing the solution.

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Sure!

The flag for me looks something like this:

--app=http://...:8600/
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