How to fix the slow sendkeys on IE 11 with Selenium Webdriver 3.0.0?

Question

Firefox and chrome is working fine but with IE 11, the sendkeys are extremely slow. How do you fix this issue ?

My Environment:

• Running IE 11.103

Answer 1

Release note v2.47.0.1:

• Enabled fast failure for cookie manipulation in IE. The refactor of cookie handling for the IE driver introduces an incompatibility with the 64-bit IE driver and IE 10 and 11 running on 64-bit Windows. As is the case with sending keystrokes and creating screenshots, a Windows hook procedure is now used for getting and settingcookies in IE. That means that in IE 10 and 11 on 64-bit Windows, where the content rendering process is still 32-bit, you must use the 32-bit IEDriverServer.exe in order to manipulate cookies. This commit will now cause exceptions to be thrown if you attempt to set or get cookies using the 64-bit driver against a 32-bit version of IE (or vice versa), but in particular, this will affect users who mistakenly try to use the 64-bit executable with IE 10 or 11 in 64-bit Windows.

(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/master/cpp/iedriverserver/CHANGELOG)

So you should use 32 bit or the content rendering needs to be changed to 64 bit