FireWatir TextField set : Very Slow

Question

When calling the set method of a text_field in ruby, the text is being entered at a very slow rate in the browser, roughly at 1 character / second.

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Answer 1

It is a known bug: WTR-397

Workaround is to use watir-webdriver or to use value= instead of set. Example:

browser.text_field(how => what).value= "string"