{"id":12967,"date":"2022-10-02T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T09:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-do-i-prevent-watir-from-auto-closing-firefox\/"},"modified":"2022-10-02T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T09:19:51","slug":"solved-how-do-i-prevent-watir-from-auto-closing-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-do-i-prevent-watir-from-auto-closing-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How do I prevent Watir from auto closing firefox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-6144013\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"6144013\" data-parentid=\"6073559\" data-score=\"2\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>I was attempting to run this code in NetBeans, so this behavior may just be specific to that editor.<\/p>\n<p>There were two causes I have found for it shutting down, first is when there is an error in the code, the browser will shut down as soon as an exception is thrown.  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