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I've installed the mozrepl add-on in Firefox for Mac OS X, but any attempt to use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox fails in new() with the message

Failed to connect to , pattern match timed-out at /Library/Perl/5.10.0/MozRepl/Client.pm line 151

My speculation is that it has to do with mozrepl's default port, 4242. If in Terminal I type

telnet LOCALHOST 4242

I get garbage and no repl prompt. On the other hand if I tell mozrepl to use port 4241 and telnet to that port, I do not get garbage and I do get the repl prompt. I think my backup software, CrashPlan, is using 4242.

But if this is indeed the problem, and if I need to tell WWW::Mechanize::Firefox to use a different port, I can't figure out how to do so.

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Try 

$ENV{MOZREPL}  = 'localhost:4241';

as per perldoc MozRepl::RemoteObject

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FWIW, as old as this question is, this was the right answer for me tonight: How do you give WWW::Mechanize::Firefox permission to launch Firefox? I link it here because this was what I found first from Google and the ENV answer was not efficacious.

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