Selenium WebDriver go to page without waiting for page load

Question

I\'m translating some Selenium RC tests to Selenium WebDriver using the python api. In Selenium WebDriver, I\'m noticing that driver.get( \'http://...\' ) seems

Answer 1

Yes and no. As of Selenium 2.24.1, the support for this is only in Firefox - you have to run it in a special "mode":

FirefoxProfile fp = new FirefoxProfile();
fp.setPreference("webdriver.load.strategy", "unstable");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(fp);

You can even set the timeout if you want to. This method fails in any browser other than Firefox and does nothing in Firefox without the unstable strategy:

driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);