How to set Selenium Python WebDriver default timeout?

Trying to find a good way to set a maximum time limit for command execution latency in Selenium Python WebDriver. Ideally, something like:

my_driver = get_my_driver()
my_driver.set_timeout(30) # seconds
my_driver.get('http://www.example.com') # stops / throws exception when time is over 30     seconds

would work. I have found .implicitly_wait(30), but I’m not sure if it results in the desired behavior.

In case it is useful, we are specifically using the WebDriver for Firefox.

EDIT

As per @amey’s answer, this might be useful:

ff = webdriver.Firefox()
ff.implicitly_wait(10) # seconds
ff.get("http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading")
myDynamicElement = ff.find_element_by_id("myDynamicElement")

However, it is not clear to me whether the implicit wait applies both to get (which is the desired functionality) and to find_element_by_id.

Thanks very much!

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Method 1

In python, the method to create a timeout for a page to load is:

Firefox, Chromedriver and undetected_chromedriver:

driver.set_page_load_timeout(30)

Other:

driver.implicitly_wait(30)

This will throw a TimeoutException whenever the page load takes more than 30 seconds.

Method 2

The best way is to set preference:

fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
fp.set_preference("http.response.timeout", 5)
fp.set_preference("dom.max_script_run_time", 5)
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)

driver.get("http://www.google.com/")

Method 3

Information about Explicit and Implicit waits can be found here.

UPDATE

In java I see this, based of this :

WebDriver.Timeouts pageLoadTimeout(long time,
                                 java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit unit)

Sets the amount of time to wait for a page load to complete before throwing an error. If the timeout is negative, page loads can be indefinite.

Parameters:
    time - The timeout value.
    unit - The unit of time.

Not sure of the python equivalent.

Method 4

My solution was to run an asynchronous thread alongside the browser load event, and have it close the browser and re-call the load function if there was a timeout.

#Thread
def f():
    loadStatus = true
    print "f started"
    time.sleep(90)
    print "f finished"
    if loadStatus is true:
        print "timeout"
        browser.close()
        call()

#Function to load
def call():
    try:
        threading.Thread(target=f).start()
        browser.get("http://website.com")
        browser.delete_all_cookies()
        loadStatus = false
    except:
        print "Connection Error"
        browser.close()
        call()

Call() is a function which just

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