# Watir weirdness

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-weirdness/109357>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 13, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-weirdness/109357 "2007-07-13T18:26:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-weirdness/109357/1 "2007-07-13T18:26:03Z")

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I’m using watir-1.5.1.1192 on windows XP with IE7 for a number of  
tests here, and well, things are just getting funky.

With some objects, watir occasionally will not finding them. If I go  
in with irb, I can find them each and every time.  
With other objects, the second or third time they are used, watir  
can’t find them, nor can it regain a handle to them. Again if I go in  
with irb, I can find them each and every time.

Has anyone else experienced this sort of problem? Any solutions?

–Kyle

PS: I’m running the tests using RDT/Eclipse.