Python Selenium TimeoutException error even with wait until clickable and except TimeoutException:

Question

My selenium webdriver been constantly crashing due to

TimeoutException: Message: timeout: Timed out receiving message from renderer: 298.972

The cookies pop up opens up but the script doesn't click on it, in like 20 driver.get(url), 19 times it will accept cookies but the 20th will fail to accept cookies, although the window has opened up, I tried to use the code below but still fails.

retries = 1
while retries <= 5:
    try:
        element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@class="coi-banner__accept"]'))) #wait until cookies clickable
        element.click()
        break
    except TimeoutException:
        driver.refresh()            
        element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@class="coi-banner__accept"]'))) #wait until cookies clickable
        element.click()
        retries += 1

Answer 1

I ran the below script more than 20 times and still it was able to click on the desired button every single time.

All I had to do was basically to change the locator to CSS from XPath:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path)
driver.maximize_window()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 30)

driver.get("https://www.novasol.com/")

try:
    wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[onclick='CookieInformation.submitAllCategories();']"))).click()
    print('Clicked it')
except:
    print('Either element was not found, or Bot could not click on it.')
    pass

Imports:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Updated:

driver.get("https://www.novasol.com/")

def retry_click(number_of_retries, wait_before_performing_click):
    while number_of_retries > 0:
        time.sleep(wait_before_performing_click)
        try:
            wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[onclick='CookieInformation.submitAllCategories();']"))).click()
            break
        except:
            pass
        number_of_retries = number_of_retries - 1


try:
    wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[onclick='CookieInformation.submitAllCategories();']"))).click()
    print('Clicked it')
except:
    print('Either element was not found, or Bot could not click on it.')
    driver.refresh()
    retry_click(20, 10)
    pass