How to Hide Any Open Application Window during the Automation?




Q. How to hide Application Window during the automation?

During the development of my one of the projects I wanted to hide Firefox web browser window.

I was using HtmlUnitDriver to automate something but using it we cannot hide any web browser window, i did some research and some across one very good tool called AutoIt , It has all the capability to handle windows.

We can perform all kinds of operations using AutoIt.

Let me tell you how we can implement utility which can help us to Hide and again show any application window. Please follow below steps one by one.

1. You have to first install AutoIt, it is free. download from here

2. Open the Editor and write below code for Hiding any window.

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Remove Babylon Search which appears when we start Firefox


Q. How to remove Babylon Search which appears whenever I start Firefox?

Many of us face this problem, and then whenever we open Firefox/new Tab in firefox this Babylon search page appears. 

Babylon Search:










At the end of this post you will be able to remove and restore your default search engine.

Follow below simple steps.


  • In Firefox URL, type about:config and hit Enter. It will show you one warning message, just click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
  • In the filter at the top, type: keyword.URL. You will see page like below.
  • Double click it and remove whatever's in there and replace it with http://www.google.com/search?q=

How to take entire oracle db schema backup

Q. How to take entire oracle schema backup in UNIX using terminal?

There are very few simple steps to take entire db schema backup.

1. Create one physical directory in your Unix node where you want to take backup.
mkdir /tmp/my_backup_dir
Give read/write/execute permission to this directory.
chmod 777  my_backup_dir
2. Now map this physical directory to one logical directory of oracle. For this step you have to login to the sqlplus terminal with DB admin access.
CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY logical_dir as '/tmp/my_backup_dir'; 
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