ruby - watir-webdriver - Typing speed is INSANELY slow

Asked Aug 23 '16 at 18:19

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require 'watir-webdriver'
b = Watir::Browser.new :ie
b.goto "google.com"
b.text_field(title: "Search").set "ABCDEFG"

When running the above code I run into an issue where Watir takes SIX seconds to type one character, and then takes SIX seconds to type the next character and so on. This happens every time. I've searched up and down in the documentation for Watir and haven't found a way to increase this typing speed. There used to be a Watir::Browser#speed method but I've searched through the source code and found no references to speed.

I looked at this question but it's no longer helpful :<

I must use internet exploder for this, because of DCOM :<

RUBY_VERSION => 2.3.1
Watir::VERSION => 0.9.3
IE Version => 11.494
IEDriverServer => 2.53_1 x64

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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asked Aug 23 '16 at 18:19

redcodefinal

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Try the 32-bit version of IEDriverServer. FWIW: https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium-google-code-issue-archive/issues/5116 – orde Aug 23 '16 at 19:01
Some have had luck by changing the `requireWindowFocus` setting - see http://stackoverflow.com/a/32691070/1200545 – Justin Ko Aug 23 '16 at 19:09
@orde Fixed it! Thank you so much the six seconds a char was driving me nuts. – redcodefinal Aug 23 '16 at 19:16
You can also object.value = "ABCDEFG" and set the whole field at once rather than typing. – adam reed Aug 30 '16 at 15:05

ruby - watir-webdriver - Typing speed is INSANELY slow

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