->synchronize waits on the appropriate event to fire in Firefox. If it takes longer than you expect, most likely you're waiting for the wrong event. See the ->events method and the events => argument to the constructor on how to define your own events.

Just adding a timeout in ->_wait_while_busy only papers over the fact that you're not receiving (or rather, listening to) the right event.

Now, finding the right event to listen to requires some ingenuity, as the default events (DOMFrameContentLoaded, DOMContentLoaded, error, abort, stop) don't seem to fire "soon enough" in your case. Maybe load is another good event to listen to, but it fires before subframes have loaded.

In reply to Re^3: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox delayed returns / slow by Corion
in thread WWW::Mechanize::Firefox delayed returns / slow by tcordes

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