selenium.open() becomes unresponsive in an iterative test

Question

I have a set of test steps that I have to execute with different parameters. I have scripted this in Eclipse/TestNG, driven by the parameters supplied via an excel sheet. Now,

Answer 1

I'm still not sure of what causes this in FF. To work around, I upgraded to the alpha release of the selenium server 2.0.

Answer 2

Add below line above selenium.open() method

selenium.setTimeout("0");