Any way to make Driver.open / Driver.get / Driver.uc_open faster?

[oculunto]

Hello,
I am using seleniumBase with the Driver object from seleniumbase import Driver
My problem (little inconvenience really...) is that after calling Driver.open / Driver.get / Driver.uc_open there is a few seconds between that and the next action.
Let me try to explain with an example:

from seleniumbase import Driver
browser = Driver(uc=True,user_data_dir = profileDir, proxy=PROXY_USER+":"+PROXY_PASS+"@"+PROXY_HOST+":"+PROXY_PORT)
time.sleep(2)
Driver.open(someURL)
time.sleep(0.5)
#Here is where the "problematic" waiting time happens before the click
elementToClick = browser.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//*[contains(text(),'something')]")
if elementToClick != []:
     elementToClick[0].click()

Keep in mind this is just a quick example, I usually use WebDriverWait(browser, 8).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'something'))) to speed things up.
I have tried with many of the methods from Driver (open, get, uc_open) but it seems to have a few seconds delay after opening the page that I would like to reduce for my use case if possible.
I also tried using "none" as page_load_strategy to no avail.
I tried to look in the code if the get method is redefined and adds things that might induce delay, but as a beginner i wasn't able to find what.
If anyone knows how I can modify any of those methods to reduce the delay (probably at the cost of some stability), it'd be cool.
I appreciate the help and the work of the author !

[mdmintz]

One of the things that SeleniumBase does to avoid detection is to:

• Disconnect chromedriver temporarily from Chrome before loading websites that try to detect chromedriver.

(It's one of the things listed in #2000)

It's only done when a requests.get() call returns a 403, or similar. If that happens, chromedriver disconnects from the browser as the web page gets loaded, and then reconnects as quickly as possible so that selenium can resume performing actions. The default driver.get() method is modified with this change.

To perform the original driver.get() call (which doesn't have this extra wait), use self.driver.default_get() instead.

To summarize, use self.driver.default_get(URL) when in UC Mode to prevent the special disconnect. Opening URLs will go faster, but websites may be able to detect that you're using chromedriver.