I changed out watir for watir-webdriver and seems to have increased
the speed a little.  I have not yet tried value= instead of set,
however there is not a ton of data set on the pages.  I will have to
try that and let you know.

On Sep 9, 12:21 pm, John Fitisoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's interesting. Maybe it's the text entry? I've run into situations where
> those parts of a test occasionally crawl. Otherwise Firefox is generally a bit
> faster (at least for me). I had done some customization for what I was doing 
> so
> maybe my experience is different from others.
>
> Do you have any ideas where specifically the bottlenecks are?
>
> If it's a text entry problem you might want to try value= instead of set (not
> sure if that will work but think I tried that at one point).
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Chad Larkin <[email protected]>
> To: Watir General <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 9:23:03 AM
> Subject: [wtr-general] Speed: IE vs FF
>
> I recently began using Watir/Firewatir with Rasta to build a domain
> specific language for the automated testing tasks where I work.  I
> have been experiencing some significant differences in time to execute
> when running those tests in IE 8 compared to FF 3.6.9.  The longer
> tests take about 1/3 (or less) of the time to execute in IE than FF.
> Does anyone have any tips for speeding up the execution in FF?
>
> Thank you
> Chad
>
> ruby 1.8.6 (2010-02-04 patchlevel 398) [i386-mingw32]
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
> activesupport (2.3.8, 2.3.5)
> builder (2.1.2)
> commonwatir (1.6.5)
> ffi (0.6.3 x86-mingw32)
> firewatir (1.6.5)
> google-spreadsheet-ruby (0.1.1)
> hoe (2.6.1, 2.6.0)
> hpricot (0.8.2 x86-mswin32)
> json_pure (1.4.3)
> nokogiri (1.4.2.1 x86-mingw32, 1.4.1 x86-mingw32)
> oauth (0.4.1, 0.4.0)
> rake (0.8.7)
> rasta (0.1.10 x86-mswin32-60)
> roo (1.9.3)
> rspec (1.2.9)
> ruby-ole (1.2.10.1)
> rubyforge (2.0.4)
> rubygems-update (1.3.7, 1.3.6)
> rubyzip (0.9.4)
> rubyzip2 (2.0.1)
> s4t-utils (1.0.4)
> selenium-webdriver (0.0.24, 0.0.18)
> spreadsheet (0.6.4.1)
> syntax (1.0.0)
> user-choices (1.1.6.1)
> watir (1.6.5)
> watir-webdriver (0.0.2, 0.0.1.dev5)
> win32-api (1.4.6 x86-mingw32)
> win32-process (0.6.2)
> windows-api (0.4.0)
> windows-pr (1.0.9)
> xml-simple (1.0.12)
>
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