Selenium WebDriver typing very slow in text field on IE browser

My issue was with the driver architecture, and fixed it by downloading and using a 32bit one.

To switch to 32 bit here is what you have to do

1. Download 32 bit driver service from http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

2. Instantiate your InterExplorerWeDriver class usingInternetExplorerDriverService class with path to 32 bit driverservice.

   InternetExplorerDriver ieDiver = new InternetExplorerDriver(“Path to the 32 bit Explorer driver”);

OR if using a builder:

System.setProperty(“webdriver.ie.driver”,“C:\\drivers\\IEDriverServer.exe”);DesiredCapabilities ieCapabilities=DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();ieCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver .INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,true);ieCapabilities.setCapability("requireWindowFocus", true);File ie_temp=newFile(“C:\\Selenium\\IEDrivertemp”);InternetExplorerDriverService.Builder ies=newInternetExplorerDriverService.Builder();ies.withExtractPath(ie_temp);InternetExplorerDriverService service=ies.build();WebDriver driver=newInternetExplorerDriver(service,ieCapabilities))

The thread that helped me resolve

http://forumsqa.com/question/typing-too-slow-in-text-fields-while-replaying-tests/

For me it worked with 64bit version of IEDriverServer. I added the property requireWindowFocus with "true" value:

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);...capabilities.setCapability("requireWindowFocus", true);WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilities);

I'm using version 2.47 of Selenium/IE Driver

For 64 bit WebDriver:

1. Open IE
2. Go to Internet Options → Advanced → Security
3. Check ☑ Enable 64-bit processes for Enhanced Protected Mode
4. Click Apply and OK

For 32 bit WebDriver:

1. Open IE
2. Go to Internet Options → Advanced → Security
3. Uncheck ☐ Enable 64-bit processes for Enhanced Protected Mode
4. Click Apply and OK

strangely:

• The setting was necessary no matter if enhanced protected mode was activated or not.
• Other than the text says in the dialog, restarting my computer was not necessary.

My setup: Windows 10, IE 11, everything 64 bit, Selenium 3.4