Stopping Page Loading in Selenium Java Using ESC Key with Multithreading

When using Selenium with Java, pages may hang because of anti‑scraping mechanisms, slow network, or pending requests; the author proposes a simple multithreaded solution that sends the ESC key to stop loading.

package selenium;

import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

public class StopLoading extends Thread {
    public void run() {
        try {
            Thread.sleep(3000);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        try {
            Library.getInstance().pressKeyEvent(KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE);
        } catch (AWTException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

To apply this, add the following code after navigating to a new page:

Thread stop = new StopLoading();
stop.start();