Internet Explorer 9 intermittently fails to recognize page loads with waitForPageToLoad call

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 1639

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a test case with selenium 2.0b3 and run in IE9
2. Load pages using IE9, detect page loads with waitForPageToLoad
3. Random failures on a codebase that works fine with FF 3.6/4, IE7/8, pages just time
out even after IE9 reports that loading has completed.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect IE9 to have consistent detection of page loads with waitForPageLoad method as
all other browsers, instead it intermittently fails to recognize page loads, resulting
in basically every multi-page test case being unreliable.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
selenium 2.0b3, same behavior on Win7 and Windows Server 2008

Anybody else have the same issue?  Any workarounds?  

Reported by landry.adam on 2011-05-09 23:16:13

[lukeis]

The same issue happens with open command as well. The page gets loaded but Selenium
fails to recognize that and gets timed out.

Reported by raju.kamal on 2011-06-09 10:51:57

[lukeis]

I'm running into this problem on Firefox 5.  My scripts were working fine up until Firefox
5.  I skipped Firefox 4 altogether, so can't speak to that.  But I have scripts that
create new objects and require page loads.  The page to load is recognized and moves
on to the next call but I've found that the page isn't completely loading, so it is
breaking my scripts.  I'm applying a bandaid of sleep, which will not suffice

Reported by robert.evans25 on 2011-06-25 01:41:41

[lukeis]

I'm seeing the FF5 problem on FF4,  the page is apparently loaded but it hasn't.  I
too have resorted to sleep!!!

Reported by krichards.uk on 2011-06-28 19:13:47

[lukeis]

I fixed my problem. My page had frames, waitforframetoload appears to be fixed and I've
migrated all my tests to use this instead. Works like a charm

Reported by robert.evans25 on 2011-06-29 01:25:22

[lukeis]

Not frames but iframes.

Reported by robert.evans25 on 2011-06-29 01:26:39

[lukeis]

Is there any further news on this? I'm encountering this issue too in, now running Selenium
2.2.0

Reported by danyilmaz117 on 2011-08-15 13:38:30

[lukeis]

I have a fix using a user extension that is working for me:
http://webthaumaturge.blogspot.com/2011/08/selenium-ie9-waitforpagetoload-fix.html

For convenience, I attached the user extension and the batch file I use to start the
selenium server.

Reported by webthaumaturge on 2011-08-27 02:06:32

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[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2011-10-12 21:24:17

• Labels added: Component-RC, Browser-IE