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

The best strategy I came up with was to just terminate processes that have been running longer than a set threshold (e.g. orphaned processes). This snippet can be called via child_process.execFile('powershell.exe'). Found this useful for chromedriver and webdriverJS when the browser hangs because of misbehaving javascript.

Cleanup Orphaned Processes (Runtime >30 min)

# View Processes Running > 30 MIN
Get-Process -name firefox | ? { $_.StartTime -lt (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-30) } | select pid, starttime | Sort-Object starttime

# Terminate Processes Running > 30 MIN
Get-Process -name firefox | ? { $_.StartTime -lt (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-30) } | Stop-Process -Force