Stop browser load from selenium webdriver

Question

My selenium webdriver goes to a page and waits for that page to finish loading. If 30 seconds pass it times-out and the script fails.

Is there anyway to have the

Answer 1

This is the way I came across this issue. I will be using this way until chrome supports pageload.

I installed an extension in chrome called Stop load and I set 5 secs stop load.

Then I initiated my driver with the default setting -

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("--user-data-dir="+System.getProperty("user.home")+"\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data"));
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities); 

if the page in chrome does not load in 5 secs, your extension will take care of it by killing it in 5 Seconds.

In a way it works like a implicitwait if you set the proper stop load time in the extension