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Stop page load during navigate url in selenium

I am using selenium tool in my C# windows application,
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(baseURL);
when the the application executing this line the page loads takes 2mins.
During that time, the followin element has found within 10 sec.
driver.FindElement(By.Id("searchTerm"))
I used driver.FindElement(By.Id("searchTerm")).SendKeys(Keys.Escape);
But it wont work properly. The problem is after complete the page load then only the control execute next line . But I need to stop the page if the element has found.
Thanks

You could try issuing the Escape press at the top level, not on the element itself:
if (driver.FindElement(By.Id("searchTerm")) != null) {
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.SendKeys(Keys.Escape);
}
That seems to be the most common way of issuing a page load stop.

To stop page load at any moment you can use something like this:
IJavaScriptExecutor js = Brwsr.Instance as IJavaScriptExecutor;
js.ExecuteScript("window.stop();");

C# Selenium WebDriver - Is it possible to check if a certain webpage is already opened in the browser?

I was wondering if it is possible to check with C# and selenium web driver if a certain webpage is opened in the default browser?
My idea is to link certain ticketing system's time tracker with toggl.
For instance - on click of the "Time Track" button in the ticketing system, the program to click the toggl start button programmatically, at the same time.

Yes, it's possible.
You can devise a solution that checks the default window's URL or title.
if (driver.Url == 'http://some_url') { /* you are there */ }
or
if (driver.Title == 'Some Title') { /* the window is open and currently there */ }
Now, if you are running a browser manually using your own browser, then expect Selenium to detect that, then i'm sorry, but that is not possible.

In addition to #sircapsalot answer:
This won't be enough since the goal is to
on click of the "Time Track" button in the ticketing system
First you should be sure that the page has been loaded and the IWebElement is clickable. Without going in some advanced usage (like JS validation of the page state), this should do the work just fine:
var wait = new WebDriverWait(_driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(15));
var myElement = wait.Until(x => x.FindElement(By.Id("timeTrackBtnId")));
if(myElement.Displayed)
myElement.Click();
Then go for the
program to click the toggl start button programmatically, at the same time
I'm not sure how you'll sync and how page's JS events will handle this simultaneous actions, but you can try with System.Threading. If the page is created by you maybe this second part (click button, click togl) is better to be handled in the JS code.

Selenium C# 'OpenQA.Selenium.ElementNotVisibleException' error

I am trying to access a radio button. From my research I found the element using the name, since the elements of a radio button have the same name. I want to select the second button, but I get an element not visible exception and the location property of the element returned is outside the window. However, I can see the element on the page.
The exception: An exception of type 'OpenQA.Selenium.ElementNotVisibleException' occurred in WebDriver.dll but was not handled in user code
ReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> webElements = webElement.FindElements(By.Name("thename"));
webElements[1].SendKeys(Keys.Return);
I tried to move to location using the execute javascript as well as the Actions method. Neither worked.
I tried all possible keys to send to click for the Actions method:
Actions actions = new Actions(webDriver);
actions.MoveToElement(webElements[1]);
actions.SendKeys(Keys.Return);
actions.SendKeys(Keys.Enter);
actions.SendKeys(Keys.ArrowDown);
actions.Click();
actions.Perform();
For the javascript executor I tried two methods. To scroll into view, and to scroll by the amount that the Location property of webElement[1] told me it was off by.
IJavaScriptExecutor js = webDriver as IJavaScriptExecutor;
string title = (string)js.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", webElements[1]);
string title1 = (string)js.ExecuteScript("javascript:window.scrollBy(557329,136);");
I still keep getting the location not visible exception.

A quick check you could do is open the developer tools in browser and in the console see if document.querySelector("[name='thename']") finds the element. If not, maybe that element is in an iframe or the name you are using may have a typo. You will also want to make sure that the radio button you are trying to access is below 'webElement' in the DOM tree. It's also possible that the page is still loading when you are checking for the element. To check for this put in a wait before trying to find the element so the page can load fully.

Selenium click link multiple times

I'm automating tests for our webapp in Selenium WebDriver for C#. One of our test scenarios identified an issue with clicking the save button multiple times resulting in multiple identical records.
The standard IWebElement.Click() causes Selenium to block until the page is fully loaded. That means by the time our second click comes around to executing, the postback has been performed and we're not on the form page anymore.
Does anyone know a means of 'manually' clicking an element that won't cause Selenium to block?

You could either wait for a predetermined amount of time for the page to load:
driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
...or to be more dynamic and wait for your button to appear:
var driver = new WebDriver();
var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan(0, 1, 0));
wait.Until(d => d.FindElement(By.Id("button"));
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7811812/2006048
Selenium also has source code that is similar to the second method: http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/dotnet/src/WebDriver.Support/UI/ExpectedConditions.cs
Let me know if it works out for you. I personally use these options with WatiN:
browser.WaitForComplete();
...or:
browser.WaitUntilContainsText("Text");
It's a shame Selenium does not have the first one.

If we use JavaScript to send our click events, Selenium will not be blocked and we can click multiple times. However, because our click triggers a page load, we cannot reference the element directly. Instead, we need to specify the location to click and then fire our click events.
Because our WebApp uses JQuery, I was able to use the code specified here:
How to simulate a click by using x,y coordinates in JavaScript?
So in the end our C# logic looks something like this:
IWebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("foobar"));
Point point = element.Location;
IJavascriptExecutor jscript = (IJavascriptExecutor)driver;
jscript.executeScript("$(document.elementFromPoint(arguments[0], arguments[0])).click();", point.X, point.Y);
Although this sends the click event I'm not 100% sure that the element receives it; I'll run some experiments and see.

What you need to do is click via javascript. In java this is done like this:
IJavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfd")));
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfd")));
I actually imagine it is very similar, this will not block selenium and you should be able to chain a few on before the page comes back.
if this newer approach is too slow you might be quicker doing it all in js, e.g.
IJavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("document.getElementById(id).click();");
executor.executeScript("document.getElementById(id).click();");

C# selenium webdriver chrome driver wait until modal window is completely gone

I'm currently using the chrome driver with C# webdriver. one of the problems i'm facing is waiting for "exist" or "visible" is not working in my case because the modal window takes some time to go away. and i'm getting this error:
System.InvalidOperationException: unknown error: Element is not clickable at point (x,x). Other element would receive the click:
reason being that the modal backdrop is still present for a few seconds after I click OK/Cancel, but the element behind the backdrop is visible and clickable to selenium.
so how do i "wait" until the modal backdrop is completely gone before attempting to click something behind it? this is not a native javascript modal. it's a fancy third party modal that slides in and out of view with a transparent "cover" that prevents clicking on anything else when it's open.

You could user the ExpectedConditions API, such as:
var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));
var element = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementIsClickable(By.Id("elementId")));
This will try during 1 minute until the element is clickable and is it does not happen it will throw an exception.