Cucumber: More patience for Selenium features
When running Selenium features with parallel_tests, some browser-server interaction might take longer than usual and the impatient Capybara will not wait enough to see results.
Put the attached file into features/support/ to make Capybara more patient in scenarios tagged @javascript.
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Background
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@javascript
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