Dinis Cruz Blog: PoC - Selenium - Gui with 3 Hijacked Browser Windows.h2

While working on TeamMentor’s browser automation using Selenium, I created a pretty cool PoC/Script where I was able to show natively the 3 main browsers (IE, Firefox and Chrome) in the same Application/GUI.

The O2 Platform script is called PoC - Selenium - Gui with 3 Hijacked Browser Windows.h2, and this is what it looks like when opened up:

In this stand-alone exe/gui you can see:

Firefox ‘hijacked’ window (left panel)
IE ‘hijacked’ window (top middle panel)
Chrome ‘hijacked’ window (right panel)
C# REPL script (bottom middle panel)

Using the C# REPL, we can open google on the 3 browsers (just click Execute):

We can also confirm that we are indeed seeing the rendering of 3 individual browsers by going to the www.whatismybrowser.com website:

or owasp.org:

or a local copy of TeamMentor:

The key concept behind this PoC is the fact that we are NOT embedding ActiveX or COM objects in this Windows GUI :)

What you are seeing above are the (fully functional) browser’s main windows, each running in its own process.

To control the 3 browers, I use Selenium's browser-specific WebDriver apis/tools.

To grab the windows, I used the O2’s Window Handle Hijack technique that you can read about in these posts: