Internet Explorer 11 getting stuck randomly while executing tests through IEDriverServer and Selenium

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I'm having issues that IE version 11 stuck randomly on some page. the code is working fine because whenever i restart the program sometimes it work but the most annoying will be randomly stuck after click and load the page. is this normal on IE? i never had this type of issues when using Chrome. but this website works only at IE. can i know the cause of this problem is it the driver?, the website itself? or Network security?

Although sometimes selenium's output script can't work well with some problem such as floating layer, ng-click or something else such as this page haven't complete initialization and if one step is broken, the script will stuck , but you said that `the code is working fine`. So I suggest it will be IE's problem. I suggest you can show the problem more clearly or try firefox. — Henry, Aug 23 '18 at 01:42
That's because the IE driver. I wouldn't use selenium when I automate IE, I use watir-classic which uses win32ole implementation which outstandingly does the Job even though this Ruby gem is deprecated. — Rajagopalan, Aug 23 '18 at 03:55
@Rajagopalan This is not the first comment I’ve seen you make where you explicitly blame the IE driver for being substandard in some general, non-specific way. It would be great if you could be more specific in your criticism, or even better, help fix whatever you think is wrong with the driver. — JimEvans, Aug 23 '18 at 14:26
@JimEvans Its deadly slow, in my environment, selecting an option refreshes the page, it selects the option but at the end it throws the error that object is disabled. I hear from my colleague saying it would not excute JavaScript properly. — Rajagopalan, Aug 24 '18 at 06:06

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-23T12:10:51.770

While you work with Internet Explorer v11 you need to configure your test framework with the Required Configuration. Apart from these specifically only for IE 11 you will need to set a registry entry on the target computer so that the driver can maintain a connection to the instance of Internet Explorer it creates as follows:

For 32-bit Windows installations, the key you must examine in the registry editor is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE.

For 64-bit Windows installations, the key is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BFCACHE.

Internet Explorer 11 getting stuck randomly while executing tests through IEDriverServer and Selenium

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