Java Killing Popup Process

Question

I'm now writing a simple program to simulate real user surfing web. However, if there is any popup or program pop up on the screen, I need to either minimize or close it to prevent it from interacting with the wrong program. So I have to monitor the running process or detect for new process? I tried using Javascript but it requires ActiveX in IE and quite problematic. Can someone kindly advise me on how to start on writing that part of the code? I googled for a bit and it says those process window.opener.close() or Process.Destroy() commands. Thanks. Below is a simple draft of my code.

package javaapplication1;
import java.util.Random;

public class JavaApplication1 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        try
        {
            Random rand = new Random();
            int n = 1 + rand.nextInt(3);
            if (n == 1)
            {
                String myURL = "www.facebook.com";
                java.awt.Desktop myNewBrowserDesktop = java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop();
                java.net.URI myNewLocation = new java.net.URI(myURL);
                myNewBrowserDesktop.browse(myNewLocation);
            }
            if (n == 2)
            {
                String myURL = "www.google.com";
                java.awt.Desktop myNewBrowserDesktop = java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop();
                java.net.URI myNewLocation = new java.net.URI(myURL);
                myNewBrowserDesktop.browse(myNewLocation);
            }
            if (n == 3)
            {
                String myURL = "www.yahoo.com";
                java.awt.Desktop myNewBrowserDesktop = java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop();
                java.net.URI myNewLocation = new java.net.URI(myURL);
                myNewBrowserDesktop.browse(myNewLocation);
            }
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

This cannot be done. Desktop.browse Launches the default browser to display the URI . The content of the document (html) that browser displays may cause the browser to open a new window or do anything else that a browser might do when you browse that URI manually in your browser.

In most cases, the browser will not create a new process. Irrespective of whether it creates a new process or only a window, it will not provide any notification to your calling program; so your calling program has no way of controlling those windows.

You may be able to do something like this by using an embedded browser.