I’m building some functional tests for a web site using Selenium, and I’m stuck on a bizarre browser issue where the page never seems to finish loading. The status bar reads either ‘Transferring data from…’ or ‘Read…’.
Since the page never finishes loading, my selenium tests timeout.
The issue only seems to happen on FireFox. Our tests rely on FireFox *chrome to test file-uploads, so FireFox is crucial to our testing strategy.
I’ve checked both FireBug and Fiddler, but I don’t see any incomplete long-running requests. All requests complete with normal response codes (no 404 errors).
What should I look at to address this issue?
- Doctype?
- Invalid Markup?
- Low level FireFox setting?
- Registry Hack?
- IIS setting?
Although fixing the issue for the planet would be awesome, I only really need to fix the issue for my tests.
If it helps, it’s a .NET 3.5 solution built on MOSS and we’re using Flash with sifr. Our markup is legacy (and it’s a MOSS site) so it’s a bit rough on the edges.
Hate to answer my own question, but the problem went away on its own after developers started to strip out invalid markup, unclosed tables or TR’s without tables are generally bad.