Selenium: don't wait for asynchronous resources

Question

Selenium expects calls to asynchronous resources before moving to a new page.

Ref.

<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js" async defer></script>

On a website with many external apis (such as Google Analytics and share them with G +, Facebook and Twitter). Selenium spends more time waiting for asynchronous calls than when running tests.

Is there a way to disable this behavior so that selenium does not wait for asynchronous external api calls?

Answer 1

In action, you see page load time . You can configure it and handle a timeout exception:

try:
    driver.set_page_load_timeout(5)  # in seconds
except TimeoutException:
    pass

# continue with testing

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Answer 2

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

: https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FirefoxDriver#-Beta-_load_fast_preference