Question

Is there a way to stop loading a page with watir-webdriver on firefox? Or is there a way to force something in my script even if the page is still loading? At a point in my script, the website will hang and the script eventually timeouts.

Answer 1

You can use the Timeout class to force it to give up after waiting a reasonable amount of time (and this is internally how Watir performs it’s waits as well)

begin
  Timeout::timeout(10) do
    # perform actions that may hang here
  end
rescue Timeout::Error => msg
  put "Recovered from Timeout"
end