.type() on IE 10 is (super) slow

[ghguy]

Hi Sebastian, first great job on this tool!

We tested our test against IE 10 on Windows 8. For every type(), every stroke of key pause for like 2 seconds, is that normal? The same actions works fine on Windows 7 + IE 9. Any insight into working around this?

[asciidisco]

First of all thank you.
I must admit, I haven't encountered that issue, but I haven`t tested the combination of Win 8 & IE 10 yet.
As I need to make some changes to get IE 11 up & running, I will update the IEDriver.exe binary that is used to communicate with IE, I suppose the issue is in there.

[ghguy]

Someone who is good with protractor informed us that it is most slightly a web driver issue c.f. angular/protractor#1506. Anyhow, if you can downgrade the ie driver to 32-bit for now, it might work.

[lsolano]

Hi Sebastian,

Same issue here (as @ghguy) :

For every type(), every stroke of key pause for like 2 seconds

OS: Windows 8.1 Pro N (x64)
Node.js: v0.12.4
IE Version: 11
package.json:

{
  "name": "prodocTestsDalek",
  "description": "Testing...",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "devDependencies": {
    "dalek-browser-chrome": "0.0.11",
    "dalek-browser-firefox": "0.0.6",
    "dalek-browser-ie": "0.0.5",
    "dalek-reporter-html": "0.0.4",
    "dalek-reporter-junit": "0.0.2",
    "dalekjs": "0.0.9",
    "grunt": "^0.4.5",
    "grunt-dalek": "^0.2.0",
    "minimist": "^1.1.3",
    "ninejs": "^0.1.7"
  }
}

Gruntfile.js:

module.exports = function(grunt) {
    'use strict';

    grunt.initConfig({
        dalek: {
            dist: {
                src: [
                    'test01.js',
                    'test02.js'
                    ]
            },
            options: {
                browser: [/*'chrome', */'ie'/*, 'firefox'*/],
                reporter: ['console', 'junit']
            }
        }
    });

    grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-dalek');

    /**
     * Loads tasks located in the tasks directory.
     */
    grunt.loadTasks('tasks');

    grunt.registerTask('default', ['dalek']);
};

[codyfoss]

Still an issue as of May 2016 with Win 10 + IE 11 (in VirtualBox).

Replacing lib/bin/IEDriverServer.exe with the latest 32 bit version (v2.53.0) from here fixed it for me.