Forum: Ruby watir-webdriver blocklist message

When I load watir-webdriver I'm getting a message I've never seen
before:
"Blocklist::_loadBlocklistFromFile: blocklist is disabled"
Apart from that message it appears to be loading normally.

I believe that this is related to some odd behaviour I've been getting
from the timeout exception class. It seems to be interpreting intervals
incorrectly. For example, watir's wait_until_present(0.1) waits for 60
seconds.

Any idea how I enable this "Blocklist"?

Thanks.

I've stopped getting the Blocklist message, but Watir's wait methods 
still only default to 60 seconds or indefinite. I've tried completely 
resetting the profile and removing all add-ons and plug-ins from 
Firefox.

Curiouser and curiouser...

It appears to time out correctly when waiting for an indexed element, 
but fails when dealing with name or id. Why?!

irb(main):018:0> b.table(:index,1).wait_until_present(1)
Watir::Wait::TimeoutError: timed out after 1 seconds, waiting for 
{:index=>1, :tag_name=>"table"} to become present


irb(main):019:0> b.table(:id,'n').wait_until_present(1)
Timeout::Error: Timeout::Error
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:146:in `rescue in 
rbuf_fi
ll'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:140:in 
`rbuf_fill'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:122:in 
`readuntil'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:132:in `readline'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:2562:in 
`read_status_line'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:2551:in `read_new'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1319:in `block in 
transport_r
equest'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1316:in `catch'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1316:in 
`transport_request'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1293:in `request'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1286:in `block in 
request'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:745:in `start'
        from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1284:in `request'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.25.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:82:in `response_for'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.25.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:38:in `request'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.25.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:40:in `call'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.25.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:598:in `raw_execute'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.25.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:576:in `execute'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.25.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:544:in `find_element_by'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.25.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/common/search_context.rb:42:in `find_element'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.1/lib/watir
-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:247:in `by_id'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.1/lib/watir
-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:26:in `locate'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.1/lib/watir
-webdriver/elements/element.rb:384:in `locate'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.1/lib/watir
-webdriver/elements/element.rb:362:in `assert_exists'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.1/lib/watir
-webdriver/elements/element.rb:37:in `exists?'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.1/lib/watir
-webdriver/elements/element.rb:296:in `present?'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.1/lib/watir
-webdriver/wait.rb:132:in `block in wait_until_present'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.1/lib/watir
-webdriver/wait.rb:19:in `until'
        from 
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.1/lib/watir
-webdriver/wait.rb:132:in `wait_until_present'
        from (irb):19

It's also doing the same thing with a totally seperate install or Ruby 
1.9..2 and a seperate install of Firefox. Looks like I'll have to 
reformat this laptop :(

I managed to put together a kludge for now by using explicit timeouts in 
the "present?" and "until" methods. Something like this:

Timeout::timeout(input_timeout=1) do
#Default webdriver command here
end
rescue Timeout::Error
raise TimeoutError
end