JSSh for Firefox on Linux (because Firewatir loves it)
March 12th, 2007 <firefox, howto, ruby, tech>It goes like this: Firewatir, the Firefox port of WATIR, depends on JSSh. And JSSh does not install & run nicely on Linux. Clear ?
Annoyed by this situation, I looked what’s the problem with this JSSh. To make the story short, success - downlaod the working JSSh for Linux here.
Update 2007-04-11: modified to work also with FF 1.5.3+
Oh, by the way, JSSh stands for JavaScript Shell and it allows you remotely manipulate Firefox remotely. Firewatir gives you a higher-level toolkit for “Web Application Testing in Ruby” (of course not Web scraping ;>>> ). Talking about it let me show how to install the whole thing:
(0. I would recommand to create a dedicated Firefox profile run Firefox in a dedicated profile firefox -ProfileManager)
1. Downlaod and install JSSh extension to Firefox and restart it.
2. Start Firefox:
firefox -P testyard -jssh
The JSSh should be up, listening on port 9997 (note: consider security issues). You should be able to communicate with Firefox via telnet. For example:
>telnet localhost 9997
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Welcome to the Mozilla JavaScript Shell!
> 1+1
2
> help()
....
> exit()
3. Dowload firewatir (you have to do it from its homepage, it is not on rubyforge yet). Use the mswin32 version, although you are on Linux. Install:
sudo gem install firewatir-1.0.1-mswin32.gem
3. Get to the real ruby test. For example:
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require ‘rubygems’
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require ‘firewatir’
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include FireWatir
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ff=Firefox.new
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ff.goto("http://www.google.com/ncr")
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ff.text_field(:name,"q").set("ruby")
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ff.button(:value,"Google Search").click
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puts ff.element_by_xpath("//a[@class=’l']").text
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ff.close
PS: For those interested in what did I fix: I took one of the latest builds from Dave, repackaged it so that it installs “properly” - as an extension of “21st century” - and added the config GUI shipped originally with the JSSh. It was tested with FF 2.0.0.1 on Ubuntu (Eft), Kubuntu, Gentoo. Update: tested also on FF 1.5(.0.7)
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I want jssh for firefox3.0 in linux please help me
waiting for your positive response…………………..
Is there any way to install this on debian?
because IceWeasel hates it
“JSSh 0.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Iceweasel 3.0.7.”
http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2008/07/build-firefox-3-web-browser-with-jssh.html
and follow the instructions
I got the same problem with @Clive.
Jssh 0.1 is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.8
Is there a high version of Jssh ?
Yeah - I’m looking for a way to install this for FF3 too - on Ubuntu Karmic.
I am facing a serious problem that the fire fox get crashed while start running the test. I am using firfox 3.5 and rhel5. Please help.
You can download the .xpi and unzip it if you change the file extension to .zip
Then you can modify it and change its version compatibility settings to work with other versions and zip it back up (dont forget to change the extension again)….
Nice tutorial but cannot get it running on Ubuntu in 2011. Post is quite old bug apps are still buggy
This does not work on Linux with Firefox 4.0.1 Any thought on providing support for that?
Are there any plans in the works to support Firefox 4.0.1 ?