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Unexpected error launching Internet Explorer. Protected Mode must be set to the same value

4 Comments / Selenium WebDriver Tutorial / By Dwarika Dhish Mishra

When we try to launch IE using WebDriver on very first time on a fresh computer by using this code

WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.get("http://abodeqa.com");

1 2	WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(); driver.get("http://abodeqa.com");

Then we filled with amazement when we find this exception

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unexpected error launching Internet Explorer. Protected Mode must be set to the same value (enabled or disabled) for all zones. (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.6.0_25'
Driver info: driver.version: <a title="Everything you wanted to know about the Internet Explorer driver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver">InternetExplorerDriver</a>
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:131)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:105)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.<a title="Information about the RemoteWebDriver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/RemoteWebDriver">RemoteWebDriver</a>.execute(<a title="Information about the RemoteWebDriver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/RemoteWebDriver">RemoteWebDriver</a>.java:409)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.<a title="Information about the RemoteWebDriver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/RemoteWebDriver">RemoteWebDriver</a>.startSession(<a title="Information about the RemoteWebDriver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/RemoteWebDriver">RemoteWebDriver</a>.java:103)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.<a title="Everything you wanted to know about the Internet Explorer driver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver">InternetExplorerDriver</a>.setup(<a title="Everything you wanted to know about the Internet Explorer driver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver">InternetExplorerDriver</a>.java:104)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.<a title="Everything you wanted to know about the Internet Explorer driver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver">InternetExplorerDriver</a>.&lt;init&gt;(<a title="Everything you wanted to know about the Internet Explorer driver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver">InternetExplorerDriver</a>.java:61)

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unexpected error launching Internet Explorer. Protected Mode must be set to the same value (enabled or disabled) for all zones. (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.6.0_25'

Driver info: driver.version: <a title="Everything you wanted to know about the Internet Explorer driver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver">InternetExplorerDriver</a>

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:131)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:105)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.<a title="Information about the RemoteWebDriver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/RemoteWebDriver">RemoteWebDriver</a>.execute(<a title="Information about the RemoteWebDriver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/RemoteWebDriver">RemoteWebDriver</a>.java:409)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.<a title="Information about the RemoteWebDriver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/RemoteWebDriver">RemoteWebDriver</a>.startSession(<a title="Information about the RemoteWebDriver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/RemoteWebDriver">RemoteWebDriver</a>.java:103)

at org.openqa.selenium.ie.<a title="Everything you wanted to know about the Internet Explorer driver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver">InternetExplorerDriver</a>.setup(<a title="Everything you wanted to know about the Internet Explorer driver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver">InternetExplorerDriver</a>.java:104)

at org.openqa.selenium.ie.<a title="Everything you wanted to know about the Internet Explorer driver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver">InternetExplorerDriver</a>.<init>(<a title="Everything you wanted to know about the Internet Explorer driver" href="https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver">InternetExplorerDriver</a>.java:61)

On seeing the exception message we normally come to know the root of this exception and after a few minutes of search …

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