Stop loading browser page

Sometimes the page is loading too slow, and we get a timeout error from watir-webdriver. Like in the below case:

require 'watir-webdriver'

browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome

begin

  browser.goto("any url for a slow site")

 # Raise Timeout exception in 60 sec

rescue

  browser.send_keys(:escape) # => Raise another Timeout exception

end

Browser just refuses to respond to any othere commands before it finished loading the page. AS in this case the escape command is never executed until page loading is done.

This can be solved in below way:

require 'watir-webdriver'

client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new

client.timeout = 60 

@browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :http_client => client

begin

  @browser.goto mySite

rescue => e

  puts "Browser timed out: #{e}"

end

next_command

I hope this helps...