Windows 7 and Internet Explorer - slow sendkey problem

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 7158

What steps will reproduce the problem?

WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.get(link);
driver.findElement( By.name("username") ).sendKeys("abcdefgh");

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Method sendKeys("abcdefgh") is working very slow, sending letter by letter with ~5sec
delay.

Selenium version: 2.33, 2.39, 2.40, 2.41
OS: Windows 7 64bit with IE 9
Browser: Internet Explorer
Browser version: 9 (32/64 bit)
IE Driver Server version 32bit: 2.33, 2.39, 2.40, 2.41
IE Driver Server version 64bit: 2.33, 2.39, 2.40, 2.41

I tried different combinations of IEDriverServer (32/64 bit with various builds versions).
I tried 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 [32 bit] versions of JRE and JDK 

When I use FF driver, the problem do not exist.
With IE, problem exists even on Windows 7 32 bit.

Is there any workaround?

Reported by mucha902 on 2014-04-01 12:16:22

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2014-04-08 13:32:12

• Labels added: Browser-IE, Performance

[lukeis]

I have this same issue using Windows8 and IE10. 

Reported by slpoole1@yahoo.com on 2014-04-10 12:20:08

[lukeis]

Are you certain this is happening with IE9? It is a known issue with IE10+.

Reported by james.h.evans.jr on 2014-05-29 11:10:47

• Status changed: NeedsClarification
• Labels removed: Status-Untriaged

[lukeis]

Yes, it is IE9 (64 and 32 bit).
Tested on different PC's.

Reported by mucha902 on 2014-06-10 10:09:08

[lukeis]

I have this problem with Windows 7 - IE 11, but only with driver 64 bits.
With driver 32 bits, answer to sendKeys is instantanenous.

Reported by frederic.fanchamps on 2014-08-28 07:40:46

[lukeis]

Yes, I do have the same problem with IE10 sending letter a by letter with 5 seconds
delay

Reported by loadrunner.qtp on 2014-09-09 12:16:41

[lukeis]

I'm seeing the same problem, with IE11 and 64-bit driver

Reported by sylvie.boenkebowden on 2014-11-04 23:21:49

[lukeis]

If you're seeing this with IE10 or IE11 using the 64-bit IE driver, you're running into
issue #5116. See http://jimevansmusic.blogspot.com/2014/09/screenshots-sendkeys-and-sixty-four.html
for why that particular bug will not be fixed. This issue claims that it occurs on
IE9, using the 32-bit version of IEDriverServer.exe.

Reported by james.h.evans.jr on 2014-11-05 00:07:44

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 17:46:34

• Labels added: Restrict-AddIssueComment-Commit