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    copied!<p>I am completely new to Watir, trying to work out the basics so we can use it for testing our websites.</p> <p>The problem is, following the 'Watir in 5 minutes' after I do my first <code>browser.goto</code>, I seem to lose connection to the browser window. The window is still there, but I can no longer "command" it from irb.</p> <p>I just get this error:</p> <pre><code>C:\&gt;irb DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle irb(main):001:0&gt; require "watir-webdriver" =&gt; true irb(main):002:0&gt; ie = Watir::Browser.new :ie Started InternetExplorerDriver server (32-bit) 2.32.3.0 Listening on port 5555 =&gt; #&lt;Watir::Browser:0x..f3e539e40 url="http://localhost:5555/" title="WebDriver" &gt; irb(main):003:0&gt; ie.goto "google.com" =&gt; "http://localhost:5555/" irb(main):004:0&gt; ie.goto "stackoverflow.com" Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchWindowError: Unable to get browser from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.32.1/l ib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:52:in `assert_ok' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.32.1/l ib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:15:in `initialize' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.32.1/l ib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:in `new' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.32.1/l ib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:in `create_response' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.32.1/l ib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:66:in `request' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.32.1/l ib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:40:in `call' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.32.1/l ib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:619:in `raw_execute' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.32.1/l ib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:597:in `execute' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.32.1/l ib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:103:in `get' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.32.1/l ib/selenium/webdriver/common/navigation.rb:14:in `to' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.4/lib/w atir-webdriver/browser.rb:77:in `goto' from (irb):4 from C:/Ruby200-x64/bin/irb:12:in `&lt;main&gt;' irb(main):005:0&gt; </code></pre> <p>I am using Win7 x64 and Ruby x64 BUT a 32bit IE.</p>
 

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