Error: Error while waiting for Protractor to sync with the page: {} when trying to query elements in a popup window

[romankolpak]

I'm trying to test Facebook login in my app, and since it's done in a popup, things are getting messy. This is pretty much the whole code of the test:

// the click is supposed to open the Facebook login dialog
element(by.xpath('//div[@id="login-form"]/a')).click();

var handlesPromise = ptor.getAllWindowHandles();

handlesPromise
  .then(function(handles) {
     return ptor.switchTo().window(handles[1]);
  }).then(function(handle) {
     // here's where I'm getting the `Error: Error while waiting for Protractor to sync with the page: {}`
    // It seems that scheduling any commands at this point will result in this error
    element(by.id('email')).sendKeys('wut'); 
  });

Is this a bug or correct behavior? Am I missing something?

[juliemr]

I'm guessing that the pop up page does not have Angular on it, is that correct? In this case, you'll need to use the base webdriver instance:

browser.driver.findElement(by.id('email')).sendKeys('wut')

[romankolpak]

Yeah, you're right. Thanks a lot! I guess this was more of a stackoverflow kinda question rather than a github issue :) Sorry about that

[morgs32]

if this were on stack overflow upvote julie's answer

[StoneCypher]

It is: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18382866/can-protractor-test-a-login-that-is-not-angular-based