Boss.Find() throws exception about browserboss

[StephenCleary]

One of the primary problems with Selenium that people encounter is that it's not very reliable. It tends to throw exceptions, particularly when the page is still loading (or dynamically building itself after loading, very common in SPAs).

For this reason, BrowserBoss will retry its operations by default. It will retry for up to 30 seconds, and (I'm pretty sure) will delay a second or so between retries. This is usually sufficient time for the page to fully realize itself and the call to succeed.

However, if you run this in Visual Studio, it can break when those exceptions are thrown. BrowserBoss catches the exception and automatically retries - causing the Find method to ultimately succeed. But the exceptions are actually being thrown and caught, by design.

I do find it interesting though that the exception is a syntax error; this is not a kind of exception that I would expect from, say, a partially-loaded page. Do you have a (simplified) HTML document that I can repro this with?

[StephenCleary]

Closing due to lack of repro.