Enabling Quiet Exceptions
December 04, 2012From Selenium 2.23 and beyond, you can save a bit of bandwidth on failure by enabling the following feature in capabilities:
capObj.setCapability("webdriver.remote.quietExceptions", true);
This disables the default behavior of taking a screen-shot, UUEncoding it, and sending it back to the host machine. In the minimum it will save a little time per failure. I saved about 15 minutes out of a 4 hour run doing this.