Workaround for Selenium IDE 2.0.0 on Firefox 22

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On Firefox 21, S-IDE worked fine. Just upgraded to the officially released FF22, and any test I try to run errors out:

[error] Unexpected Exception: fileName -> chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/htmlutils.js, lineNumber -> 309, columnNumber -> 8

Is there a workaround for this?

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Long live continuous releases. – Ray Jul 05 '13 at 14:52

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '13 at 15:15

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There's a fix now available, but you may encounter a similar problem with keyPress commands.

answered Jul 02 '13 at 15:15

Kev

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Indeed, I downloaded the "unreleased" version 2.1.0 which remedies some, but not all of the problems. In my case its the `typeKeys` command which is still broken. – rplantiko Jul 03 '13 at 08:25
Replacing `typeKeys` with `sendKeys` as described in http://blog.reallysimplethoughts.com/2012/07/19/new-selenese-command-sendkeys/ made my tests run through successfully again. – rplantiko Jul 04 '13 at 06:43

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '13 at 15:22

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From what I have seen, the scripts stop on any 'Click' action when running FF22. Reverting back to FF21 is the best solution for now.

answered Jun 26 '13 at 15:22

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Not if my users want to run FF22, or auto-update by accident. – Kev Jun 26 '13 at 15:27
But your comment about clicks seems accurate, +1. – Kev Jun 26 '13 at 15:30
FF21 is available at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/21.0/ – Marc Jun 28 '13 at 18:49

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 03 '13 at 02:14

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I upgraded to version 2.1.0 and all of old selenium jobs started to work fine. The official release for version 2.1.0 is on July fifth but it seems they have made it available probably because so many people are now having problems.

here is the link which has the version 2.1.0 available http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/

answered Jul 03 '13 at 02:14

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It depends whether your test cases use any key commands besides sendKeys. – Kev Jul 04 '13 at 12:08

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 26 '13 at 19:31

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I posted the following issues with FF22 and Selenium IDE 2.0.. which you may also encounter. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/963084

answered Jun 26 '13 at 19:31

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Workaround for Selenium IDE 2.0.0 on Firefox 22

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