Selenium determine browser is frozen

Question

I\'m using selenium to do some stuff that involves loading quite a number of pages, potentially with numerous images and/or flash ads, which is apparently rather stressful on th

Answer 1

At least you can set a timeout for Selenium. In the following example the webdriver will wait at most 10 seconds before killing the browser and failing the test. This way you can get all the tests executed eventually.

from selenium import webdriver

ff = webdriver.Firefox()
ff.implicitly_wait(10) # seconds
ff.get("http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading")
myDynamicElement = ff.find_element_by_id("myDynamicElement")

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