I have done several selenium recordings and played back in java and a common issue is that the play back will say find by locator of something and I would get an exception of not found.
It was because I was not on the right window or not in the right frame.
I was wondering if I am using the ide incorrectly or if there is an addon that adds lines to switch to the proper window and frame before you try to findbyId or findbyXpath.
I would have like the source to say switch to this window or frame before you do your find.
It seems others have seen something like this too as in