How to fix the slow sendkeys on IE 11 with Selenium Webdriver 3.0.0?

Shaun Cromie picture Shaun Cromie · Nov 16, 2016 · Viewed 21.8k times · Source

Firefox and chrome is working fine but with IE 11, the sendkeys are extremely slow. How do you fix this issue ?

My Environment:

  • Running IE 11.103
  • Operating System Windows 10
  • I'm using eclipse(Version: Neon Release (4.6.0)) with java 1.8
  • selenium Webdriver 3.0.0

Answer

Miś Koala picture Miś Koala · May 18, 2017

In my environment: WIN 10, selenium 3.4, IE64 I set: Internet Options → Advanced → Security → ☑ Enable 64-bit processes for Enhanced Protected Mode