Is it possible to stop page loading on the browser using selenium web-driver?

Question

I searched online, but couldn't find anything about how to stop page loading over a browser using selenium web-driver.

Any idea for the same?

Answer 1

If you want to simulate the browser's STOP button, this post should help you out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5453423/how-to-stop-the-page-loading-in-firefox-programaticaly

Answer 2

There were a few possible solutions to this over on Stackoverflow on Stop browser load from selenium webdriver.

This included:

• Installing an extension in Chrome called Stop load
• using the built in pageLoadTimeout() method in Selenium
• using Sikuli or Autoit to access the browser's native controls

Answer 3

Here is a function you may call to set the page load timeout you need.