Slow typing speed - Githubissues

What steps will reproduce the problem?
ff=Firefox.new
ff.goto("http://www.google.com/ncr")
ff.text_field(:name, "q").set ("somelongstring")

Expected result: Typing a lot faster than 1 character per second
Actual result: Typing approx 1 character per second

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
FireWatir-1.1 on Fedora 7

Please provide any additional information below.
I use FireWatir to test a Mail application in which I need to fill out
several text inputs and text area(s). This issue makes it so that an
average compose can take up to 1 minute to fill in.

If anyone's interested in a dirty fix replace line 1381 in htmlelements.rb
from "doKeyPress( setThis )" to "@o.value = setThis". This doesn't have the
benefits of firing On{KeyUp,Press,Down} for every character, but it does
fill in forms a lot faster.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ghimus on 22 Oct 2007 at 10:02

korimo / firewatir

Slow typing speed #48