pageLoadTimeout in Selenium not working

Question

I am using below code using selenium in Java. I am adding pageLoadTimeout of 4 seconds, however, the driver continues to wait till the complete page is loaded. Any help?

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", System.getProperty("user.home") + "\\Desktop\\geckodriver.exe");

        FirefoxBinary b = new FirefoxBinary(new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + "\\desktop\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe"));
        FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions().setBinary(b);
        driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
        //driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(4, TimeUnit.SECONDS);


        driver.get("https://www.booking.com/hotel/in/the-taj-mahal-palace-tower.html?label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggJCAlhYSDNiBW5vcmVmaGyIAQGYATG4AQbIAQzYAQHoAQH4AQKSAgF5qAID;sid=338ad58d8e83c71e6aa78c67a2996616;dest_id=-2092174;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=2;hip_dst=1;hpos=1;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;srfid=ccd41231d2f37b82d695970f081412152a59586aX1;srpvid=c71751e539ea01ce;type=total;ucfs=1&#hotelTmpl");
List<WebElement> facilitySectionList = driver.findElements(By.className("facilitiesChecklistSection"));

Answer 1

The solution to your pageLoadTimeout issue would be to bump up your Selenium version to v3.5.0. Here is effective code block and the resulted org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException: Timeout loading page after 2000ms of your own code in minimal lines:

• Code block:

  public class Q45591282_pageloadtimeout 
  {
      public static void main(String[] args) 
      {
            System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
            WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
            driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            driver.get("https://www.booking.com/hotel/in/the-taj-mahal-palace-tower.html?label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggJCAlhYSDNiBW5vcmVmaGyIAQGYATG4AQbIAQzYAQHoAQH4AQKSAgF5qAID;sid=338ad58d8e83c71e6aa78c67a2996616;dest_id=-2092174;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=2;hip_dst=1;hpos=1;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;srfid=ccd41231d2f37b82d695970f081412152a59586aX1;srpvid=c71751e539ea01ce;type=total;ucfs=1&#hotelTmpl");
      }
  }
  

• Console Output:

  1502530864350   geckodriver INFO    geckodriver 0.18.0
  1502530864365   geckodriver INFO    Listening on 127.0.0.1:29688
  1502530865042   geckodriver::marionette INFO    Starting browser C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe with args ["-marionette"]
  1502530903170   Marionette  INFO    Listening on port 1900
  Aug 12, 2017 3:11:44 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
  INFO: Detected dialect: W3C
  Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException: Timeout loading page after 2000ms
  Build info: version: '3.5.0', revision: '8def36e068', time: '2017-08-10T23:00:22.093Z'
  System info: host: 'ATECHM-03', ip: '192.168.1.48', os.name: 'Windows 8', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.2', java.version: '1.8.0_77'
  Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
  Capabilities [{moz:profile=C:\Users\ATECHM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\rust_mozprofile.LSsvaNqlDbxE, rotatable=false, timeouts={implicit=0.0, pageLoad=300000.0, script=30000.0}, pageLoadStrategy=normal, platform=ANY, specificationLevel=0.0, moz:accessibilityChecks=false, acceptInsecureCerts=false, browserVersion=53.0, platformVersion=6.2, moz:processID=3652.0, browserName=firefox, javascriptEnabled=true, platformName=windows_nt}]
  Session ID: 8b841376-00fd-4359-8cae-a68912b23706
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.createException(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:185)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:120)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:49)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:164)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:641)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.get(RemoteWebDriver.java:368)
      at demo.Q45591282_pageloadtimeout.main(Q45591282_pageloadtimeout.java:20)
  

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Catching the WebDriverException

• Code Block:

  public class pageLoadTimeout 
  {
      public static void main(String[] args) 
      {
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
            WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
            driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            try{
                driver.get("https://www.booking.com/hotel/in/the-taj-mahal-palace-tower.html?label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggJCAlhYSDNiBW5vcmVmaGyIAQGYATG4AQbIAQzYAQHoAQH4AQKSAgF5qAID;sid=338ad58d8e83c71e6aa78c67a2996616;dest_id=-2092174;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=2;hip_dst=1;hpos=1;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;srfid=ccd41231d2f37b82d695970f081412152a59586aX1;srpvid=c71751e539ea01ce;type=total;ucfs=1&#hotelTmpl");
            }catch(WebDriverException e){
                System.out.println("WebDriverException occured");
            }
            driver.quit();
      }
  }
  

• Console Output:

  Only local connections are allowed.
  Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code.
  Jul 17, 2019 8:53:26 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
  INFO: Detected dialect: W3C
  [1563377008.449][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: 1.999
  [1563377008.450][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.001
  [1563377008.461][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.012
  [1563377010.466][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: 1.998
  [1563377010.467][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.001
  [1563377010.476][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: -0.010
  WebDriverException occured