WebDriver element.click() randomly hangs on Firefox 17 but not 15 or 4

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 4814

Python example of the test:

element = self.driver.find_element_by_id('login-button')
print 'About to click...'
element.click()
print 'Done clicking.'

This will randomly hang on the click() call and the output is:
About to click...

The "login-button" triggers a form submit. The submit does happen and the browser redirects
to the home page as intended. But the test hangs on the element.click() line.

Run it over and over and sometimes it will pass and output:
About to click...
Done clicking.

When it does hang, most times if you manually refresh the browser page the test will
continue as if everything is okay. Seems like something in the click() doesn't realise
that the click happened.

Works fine on Firefox 4 and 15.01
I believe it worked on 16 but can't confirm.

Selenium version: 2.26.0
OS: Windows 7 and Salix OS (Slackware)
Browser: Firefox
Browser version: 17

Reported by redcoelho77 on 2012-11-22 20:39:54

[lukeis]

This is also happening with me using Selenium 2.25.0, Firefox 17 and Ubuntu

Reported by fr0wleet on 2012-11-23 20:44:30

[lukeis]

Fixed by r18184

Reported by barancev on 2012-11-24 09:39:27

• Status changed: Fixed
• Labels added: Browser-Firefox
• Labels removed: Status-Untriaged

[lukeis]

Issue 4813 has been merged into this issue.

Reported by barancev on 2012-11-24 09:40:19

[lukeis]

Issue 4807 has been merged into this issue.

Reported by barancev on 2012-11-24 09:40:54

[lukeis]

I still have the same problem as issue 4813, except i am using Selenium 2.26 and FF
driver 2.26 with FF 17.

Comment #2 says it's fixed, but i was wondering on wich release? Maybe i did something
wrong but i'm still having the hangout on :

driver.findElement(By.className("non_existing_class"));

as shown in issue 4813.

Reported by turambardagnir on 2012-11-26 18:13:01

[lukeis]

The fix will be available in 2.27

Reported by barancev on 2012-11-27 07:36:07

[lukeis]

Ok thx, Do you have any idea when this release will be available?

Reported by turambardagnir on 2012-11-27 13:07:26

[lukeis]

Issue 4832 has been merged into this issue.

Reported by barancev on 2012-11-28 09:24:43

[lukeis]

Is it worth it to start adding some 'skipIf selenium < 2.27.0' calls to a test suite,
or is 2.27 looking like it is close to release?

I'm trying not to badger, if the answer is 'no idea' then I can just add the skips.
Also if there is a more central place to see progress towards 2.27 maybe linking to
it here would stop these questions.

Reported by medwards@walledcity.ca on 2012-11-28 10:10:29