Hi Charley, I hadn't debugged it at the time of my first message and was curious if anyone else had come across it before I spent time trying to find a minimum set of code that reproduced the issue.
I have done some tracing now and have a code example that reproduces the issue. It seems to be an issue with the xpath selectors. Environment: Windows 7 64-bit with Service Pack 1 Internet Explorer 32-bit 9.0.8112.16421 Ruby 1.9.2p180 Gem 1.5.2 Watir 1.9.0 Sample code: require 'watir' browser = Watir::Browser.new browser.goto 'http://google.ca' field = browser.text_field(:xpath, "input[@name='q']") field.exists? When I run the above code I get the follow three lines printed 70 times in a row: unknown property or method: `gsub' HRESULT error code:0x80020006 Unknown name. -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com