Why is Selenium InternetExplorerDriver Webdriver very slow in debug mode (visual studio 2010 and IE9)

Question

I\'m using the example code from the SeleniumHq site - but in debug mode the performance is awful.

In release mode the entire test takes about 6 seconds (including l

Answer 1

For me, the fix was to switch to the 32 bit version of InternetExplorerDriver.exe from https://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list

Seemingly named IEDriverServer nowadays, but works if you just rename it to InternetExplorerDriver.exe.