Make headless browser stop loading page

Question

I am using the watir-webdriver ruby gem. It starts the browser (Chrome) and begins to load a page. The page is loading too slowly, and watir-webdriver raises a timeout error. Ho

Answer 1

I've been fighting with this problem for awhile, I know that this post is from 2012 but I still haven't found anything that solves this issue.. So i made a work around.

require 'watir-webdriver'

client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
client.timeout = 5
@browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :http_client => client

@browser.goto "twitter.com"

#after the page loads, log in 
def test    
  begin
     temp = []
     temp = @browser.cookies.to_a
     @browser.goto "twitter.com:81"
  rescue => e
     puts "Browser timed out"
     @browser.close
     @browser = Watir::Browser.start "twitter.com"

     temp.each do |me|
       @browser.cookies.add(me[:name], me[:value])
     end
     @browser.refresh 

  end
end

The extra code that saves and restores your cookies will allow you to stay logged into sites you're using. This sucks but its the only work around I can think of. Again this was back in 2012, so if anyone finds anything that works better please correct me.