Sometimes the script failed with error even I have added "waitForElementVisible" for the element

[JackJiaJJ]

Sometimes the script failed with below error even I have added "waitForElementVisible" for the element I want to click.

Firefox 60.6.2 ESR
selenese-runner: 3.23.0
geckodriver : 0.23.0
selenium: 3.14.59

I got below error:
Command#12: click("linkText=Images")==>[Failure: The element reference of id="scp10" href="images?FORM=Z9LH" is stale; either the element is no longer attached to the DOM, it is not in the current frame context, or the document has been refreshed ....]

[JackJiaJJ]

{
"id": "b9616ec7-f5a2-474a-8263-20619e0f5bd0",
"version": "2.0",
"name": "test",
"url": "http://www.bing.com",
"tests": [{
"id": "5a602761-37a5-41ea-9b90-1565158a2177",
"name": "wait-for-commands",
"commands": [{
"id": "629fa35a-4e39-41a0-8edb-1195c1717b54",
"comment": "",
"command": "open",
"target": "/",
"targets": [],
"value": ""
}, {
"id": "2d0a9ba7-dcd7-4e08-987e-99dfd1674bce",
"comment": "",
"command": "click",
"target": "id=sb_form_q",
"targets": [
["id=sb_form_q", "id"],
["name=q", "name"],
["css=#sb_form_q", "css:finder"],
["xpath=//input[@id='sb_form_q']", "xpath:attributes"],
["xpath=//form[@id='sb_form']/div/input", "xpath:idRelative"],
["xpath=//input", "xpath:position"]
],
"value": ""
}, {
"id": "ca111baa-ec31-4208-9914-e898102b1487",
"comment": "",
"command": "waitForElementVisible",
"target": "id=sb_form_q",
"targets": [],
"value": "30000"
}, {
"id": "30cb6a3b-a5f7-4992-b295-a8ac4bc7f72e",
"comment": "",
"command": "verifyElementPresent",
"target": "id=sb_form_q",
"targets": [],
"value": ""
}, {
"id": "1bb900f3-ac40-4e68-b3b9-b89ad73e5ecc",
"comment": "",
"command": "waitForElementPresent",
"target": "id=sb_form_q",
"targets": [],
"value": "30000"
}, {
"id": "0c9497b6-5734-4dca-b899-188b6d1dd372",
"comment": "",
"command": "verifyElementNotPresent",
"target": "id=sb_form_q_1",
"targets": [],
"value": ""
}, {
"id": "fa8263ef-b216-4851-90c5-50133a367f81",
"comment": "",
"command": "waitForElementNotPresent",
"target": "id=sb_form_q_1",
"targets": [],
"value": "30000"
}, {
"id": "f72d2d92-e8f1-4711-9919-f0464f32d4b7",
"comment": "",
"command": "verifyNotText",
"target": "id=id_s",
"targets": [
["id=id_s", "id"],
["css=#id_s", "css:finder"],
["xpath=//span[@id='id_s']", "xpath:attributes"],
["xpath=//a[@id='id_l']/span", "xpath:idRelative"],
["xpath=//div[5]/div/div/div/a/span", "xpath:position"],
["xpath=//span[contains(.,'Sign in')]", "xpath:innerText"]
],
"value": "Sign in _ Jack"
}, {
"id": "979e0b2c-07dd-42c9-962c-2525a008414e",
"comment": "",
"command": "waitForElementEditable",
"target": "id=sb_form_q",
"targets": [],
"value": "30000"
}, {
"id": "26fe3e69-9c5e-428c-a06b-7704dd69a8a9",
"comment": "",
"command": "type",
"target": "id=sb_form_q",
"targets": [
["id=sb_form_q", "id"],
["name=q", "name"],
["css=#sb_form_q", "css:finder"],
["xpath=//input[@id='sb_form_q']", "xpath:attributes"],
["xpath=//form[@id='sb_form']/div/input", "xpath:idRelative"],
["xpath=//input", "xpath:position"]
],
"value": "linux"
}, {
"id": "de2bf287-dddf-4018-bd1e-b7c33633ba2e",
"comment": "",
"command": "sendKeys",
"target": "id=sb_form_q",
"targets": [
["id=sb_form_q", "id"],
["name=q", "name"],
["css=#sb_form_q", "css:finder"],
["xpath=//input[@id='sb_form_q']", "xpath:attributes"],
["xpath=//form[@id='sb_form']/div/input", "xpath:idRelative"],
["xpath=//input", "xpath:position"]
],
"value": "${KEY_ENTER}"
}, {
"id": "ff1ca598-4da8-450c-91cf-c17df7e41636",
"comment": "",
"command": "click",
"target": "linkText=Images",
"targets": [
["linkText=Images", "linkText"],
["css=.b_scopebar li:nth-child(2) > a", "css:finder"],
["xpath=//a[contains(text(),'Images')]", "xpath:link"],
["xpath=//header[@id='b_header']/nav/ul/li[2]/a", "xpath:idRelative"],
["xpath=//a[contains(@href, '/images/search?q=linux&FORM=HDRSC2')]", "xpath:href"],
["xpath=//li[2]/a", "xpath:position"],
["xpath=//a[contains(.,'Images')]", "xpath:innerText"]
],
"value": ""
}, {
"id": "539a8cee-cf9a-4102-8871-0b9fa46dc0c0",
"comment": "",
"command": "close",
"target": "",
"targets": [],
"value": ""
}]
}],
"suites": [{
"id": "36185111-87cd-446b-a732-396530702b3a",
"name": "Default Suite",
"persistSession": false,
"parallel": false,
"timeout": 300,
"tests": ["5a602761-37a5-41ea-9b90-1565158a2177"]
}],
"urls": ["http://www.bing.com/"],
"plugins": []
}

[JackJiaJJ]

Above test can work well on IDE

[JackJiaJJ]

I got a workaround: add a pause before click the element "linkText=Images"

[vmi]

Hi,

I fixed this problem and released 3.24.0.
Please test it.

[JackJiaJJ]

It can work well with release 3.24.1