Sometimes, querying the browser can be expensive. For example, if you are testing tables with large numbers of web elements (e.g. a web element for each cell), performance can be slow, and memory usage high. Normally, Thucydides will requery the page (and create a new Page Object) each time you call Pages.get() or Pages.currentPageAt(). If you are certain that the page will not change (i.e., that you are only performing read-only operations on the page), you can use the onSamePage() method of the ScenarioSteps class to ensure that subsequent calls to Pages.get() or Pages.currentPageAt() will return the same page object:

@RunWith(ThucydidesRunner.class)
public class WhenDisplayingTableContents {

    @Managed
    public WebDriver webdriver;

    @ManagedPages(defaultUrl = "http://my.web.site/index.html")
    public Pages pages;

    @Steps
    public DemoSiteSteps steps;

    @Test
    public void the_user_opens_another_page() {
        steps.navigate_to_page_with_a_large_table();
        steps.onSamePage(DemoSiteSteps.class).check_row(1);
        steps.onSamePage(DemoSiteSteps.class).check_row(2);
        steps.onSamePage(DemoSiteSteps.class).check_row(3);
    }
}