Question

I’m developing a test unit with Selenium FirefoxDriver in Java. I’d like some help handling the page load. My problem is waiting for elements while still have a timeout. I already tried applying pageLoadTimeout,implicitlyWait with no success, some methods continue to wait for full page load. A preview of my code:

    (...)
    FirefoxDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver(firefoxProfile);
    driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(1, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(1, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
    try {
       driver.get("http://mysite");
    } catch (org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException e) {
       //after 1 milisecond get method timeouts
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {//5 seconds wait
            if (driver.findElements(By.id("wait_id")).size() == 0) { //findElements cause java to wait for full load
                debug("not found");//never happens because 'if' condition waits for full load
                driver.wait(1000);
            } else {
                debug("found");
                break;
            }
        }

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The pageLoadTimeout() method only works properly with Firefox run with “unstable load strategy”. Therefore, run your FirefoxDriver like this:

FirefoxProfile fp = new FirefoxProfile();
fp.setPreference("webdriver.load.strategy", "unstable");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(fp);

Note that it only works under Firefox, really is unstable, and could make some of your other tests fail. Use with caution.