[wtr-general] Text Entry is very slow using IE 10+

2014-03-14 Thread Nathan Mitchell
I'm seeing a problem where it takes about 5 - 6 seconds per character to enter text into a text field using watir-webdriver. This only happens when using IE 10+. It does not happen in IE9, Firefox or Chrome. Steps to reproduce: Open IRB Run the following commands require 'watir-webdriver'

[wtr-general] Text Entry is very slow using IE 10+

2014-03-14 Thread Jim Evans
What version of IEDriverServer.exe are you using? More importantly, are you using the 64-bit version of the executable? If you are using the 64-bit exe, don't. Use the 32-bit exe with IE10+. With IE10+, even on 64-bit Windows, and even if you explicitly launch a 64-bit iexplore.exe, the content