QTP/UFT Is Google Chrome Frame Supported?

25 January 2014, 12:52 AM

By Test Guild

I've received a few emails over the past years inquiring about if QTP supported Google Chrome Frame. I'm surprised I've never created a post specially to address this question. So rather than to continue to answer each one individually, I thought it would be better to frame my reply in the form of a quick post.

Quick Answer

QTP 11
does not support Google Chrome Frame.
UFT 11.5
does support Google Chrome Frame v15-v26
Google Chrome Frame in Embedded Browsers is not supported by either QTP 11 or UFT 11.5

Configure Google Frame UFT extension

Sometimes there is an issue with Google Frame and UFT that requires the UFT extension to be manually enabled. If you think this is an issue you are experiencing try:

Make sure all running IE and Google Chrome processes are closed
In Windows click on Start>Run and type in regedit
Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\ChromeFrame

If the ChromeFrame key does not exist create one
Add the registry key (DWORD) named AllowUnSafeURLs and set it's value = 1

In IE navigate to: gcf:chrome://extensions
Make sure that the Unified Functional Testing Agent is enabled.

Close all browser instances and restart IE

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Tom M says:

January 27, 2014 at 4:36 pm

Please note that Google does not support or update Google Chrome frame after January 2014. So testing and support for GCF might be an issue. See Google’s notice at http://blog.chromium.org/2013/06/retiring-chrome-frame.html
Tony says:

October 7, 2014 at 8:50 pm

This did not work.
Dinesh says:

May 6, 2016 at 11:24 pm

UFT 12.5 is not supporting chromium embedded framework..
is there any way to identify objects in chromium embedded winforms application(CefSharp application) ?
Brian White says:

September 28, 2016 at 12:01 pm

I am sorry to say this did not work for me either. This is what we do though right? We try stuff and see what does and does not work in a given situation.
RAJA says:

March 9, 2017 at 4:04 pm

HI All,

Any one find solution for chromium embedded framework(with WPF add-in able to identify child objects up to wpf objects and CEFsharp objects,chromium view are not highlighting when use spy.)

unable to identify cefsharp’s child objects from that window.Whole window is identifying as object, i need to fetch data to validate from that window which is developed in Angular JS..

Please post valuable and possible solutions here