title: Limiting the timeout period for Selenium FindElement()
body: <p>How can I limit/reduce the timeout period for <code>FindElement</code>? I am scraping a website. For a table which appears in thousands of pages, I can have either an element stating there is no information, or the table.
  I search for one of theses elements and when missing, I search for the other. The problem is that when one of them does not exist, it takes a long time until the <code>FindElement</code> times out. Can this period be shortened? Can the timeout period be defined per element? All I found about waits are to prolong the timeout period...
  I'm working in a .NET environment, if that helps.</p>