Selenium WebDriver extremely slow on Firefox

Question

I am running Selenium WebDriver 2.31.0 with Java, both on 64-bit linux and 64-bit windows. Our pages load pretty quickly, about 2 seconds. However, running WebDriver tests pages can load for 30seconds or so. Is there some generic situation when WebDriver runs very slow?

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with loading the pages and sometimes getting a timeout error. I was using the WebDriver with Java and JUnit. Then I updated to the last versions of the libraries for Java and it worked well.