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I can't find an equivalent of Selenium IDE that works with Chrome.
Does anyone know how to use Selenium IDE with Chrome instead of Firefox? Or is there an alternative tool which works with Chrome?
artejera, do you mean Selenium as plugin to your browser (Selenium IDE)?
Here is something for automation in Google Chrome.
But if you want to work with Selenium RC, just set up browser in your test script. There is setBrowser() method in Selenium.
you can use Google chrome extensions like imacros, scirocco on chrome 21 or later versions. they are similar to selenium IDE for Firefox. Scirocco seems to be new with some limitations like navigation is not supported. So, I recommend 'imacros', seems very close to selenium.
If you want to harness Selenium IDE record & playback capabilities for Chrome browser there is an equivalent extension for Chrome called Scirocco.
You can add it to Chrome by visiting here using your Chrome browser https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/scirocco
Scirocco is created by Sonix Asia and is not as polished as Selenium IDE for Firefox. It is in fact quite buggy in places. But it does what you ask.
No, Google Chrome does not work with Selenium IDE. As Selenium IDE is a Firefox plugin it works only with FF.
According to your last portion of question: Or is there any alternative tool which can work with Chrome? The possible answer is as follows:
You can use Sahi with Chrome. Sahi Test Automation tool supports Chrome, Firefox and IE. You can visit for details:
http://sahi.co.in/
A couple of months ago, Micro Focus released a free tool that allows you to record Selenium scripts in Chrome and Firefox. It's called Silk WebDriver, you can download it for free from https://www.microfocus.com/products/silk-portfolio/silk-webdriver/
Disclaimer: I work for Micro Focus.
There is not a Google Chrome extension comparable to Selenium IDE.
Scirocco is only a partial (and reportedly unreliable) implementation.
There is another plugin, the Bug Buster Test Recorder, but it only works with their service. I don't know it's effectiveness.
Sahi and TestComplete can also record, but neither are free, and are not browser plugins.
iMacros is a plugin that allows record and playback, but is not geared towards testing, and is not compatible with Selenium.
It sounds like there is a demand for a tool like this, and Firefox is becoming unsupported by Selenium. So, while I know Stack Overflow isn't the forum for this, anyone interested in helping make it happen, let me know.
I'd be interested in what the limitations are and why it hasn't been done. Is it just that the official Selenium team doesn't want to support it, or is there a technical limitation?
While you cannot record tests using the Selenium IDE in Chrome (or any other browser other than FF), you can run them (from the IDE) in Chrome, IE and other browsers using the Webdriver playback feature of Selenium 2 IDE. Tests will need to be recorded and launched from FF - Chrome will launch before the first step of the test is executed. Instructions for setup and test execution are here and here. You will need to install Selenium 2 IDE (if you haven't already done so) and the Chrome Webdriver Server executable - both are available for download on the Selenium HQ website.
NOTE: If the above meets your needs, you may also want to consider just converting all your tests to Selenium Webdriver (which means they would be all code and no longer run from the Selenium IDE). This would be a better solution from the perspective of test maintenance and simplicity of execution. The Selenium documentation (on the Selenium website) has more information on the process to convert Selenium IDE tests to Webdriver.
See Scirocco Recorder For Chrome. It does IDE recording for Selenium 2 on Chrome.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scirocco-recorder-for-chr/ibclajljffeaafooicpmkcjdnkbaoiih
Just fyi . This is available as nuget package in visual studio environment. Please let me know if you need more information as I have used it. URL can be found Link to nuget
You can also find some information here. Blog with more details
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When we want to integrate Google map in windows application by using C# it gives the following errors when we run the application
error : you seem to be using an unsupported browser
Based from this forum, it seems that there is/are one or more addons or extension which is not allowing map to load. You can try to check one by one. Maybe it updated and broke maps.
You can also check this SO question which states that maybe the WebBrowser control is emulating an older version of Internet Explorer on your machine.
By default, this feature is enabled for Windows Internet Explorer and for applications hosting the WebBrowser Control. To disable this feature by using the registry, add the name of your executable file to the following setting.
Hope this helps!
You can consider a different web browser embedded control. For example, you can look at Chromium Embedded Framework.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework
I believe it should work pretty well. According to the documentation this framework embeds a Chromium browser (open-source web browser closely related to the Google Chrome browser) which uses the modern HTML5 and V8 JavaScript engine.
I'm currently trying to port a Chrome extension into a Firefox add-on, but the development process is incredibly different, and the part in particular that I find confusing is why I should have to install an SDK.
How are these two so different? Do Firefox add-ons run faster because they're precompiled? Why aren't firefox add-ons just HTML and javascript like (some) Chrome ones?
What's going on behind the scenes here that involves using so much command line just to get a firefox addon started?
The SDK exists to help developers build their extentions, but if you don't want to use it there is also a way.
You can use web extensions which as the wiki says have their benefits:
Porting add-ons to and from other browsers should be easier.
Reviewing add-ons for addons.mozilla.org should be easier.
WebExtensions must be compatible with multiprocess Firefox (Electrolysis).
Changes to Firefox's internal code should be less likely to break add-ons.
WebExtensions should be easier to use than the existing Firefox XPCOM/XUL APIs.
I don't have personal experience with web extension but it seems to be promising for someone who does not want to use SDK and the benefits ofthe web extensions are that they support an enrich manifest document and you only need to zip your extension and run it.
There are some examples on github to get started.
I remember reading about a way to develop a Google Chrome extension without constantly repacking it. In Firefox this is done by creating a soft link between the extensions directory and where your development directory is. I've forgotten the method to do this with Google Chrome and can't seem to find it when searching.
Also, if you know the answer to this question you've probably done some Chrome extension development, so I'll ask (as a bonus), what are the most valuable tools for developing a chrome extension - the ones that just make your life so much easier?
ps: The developer tools look nice. How can I log things inside a script (console.log?) and where do I see that output? Doesn't seem to be showing up here:
Enable developer mode on chrome://settings/extensions and hit load unpacked extension.
The most valuable tool for me is the build in developer tools.
The Dart language looks like a very nice technology to build web applications for the web. For me it seems that there are no browsers available (yet?) which can run Dart scripts natively. Although there's a description on Dart's site about how to embed such scripts into HTML. I understand that for now i have to "compile" Dart scripts to Javascript. But will this change in the future or the language is designed to be translated to other script standards similar to Haxe?
This is speculation, but I guess that Chrome will likely support dart natively in the future. It will mean that Chrome will be able to outperform other browsers that don't have the native support.
Update: There's a hint from The Official Google Code Blog that it might be coming:
The Dart VM is not currently integrated in Chrome but we plan to explore this option.
Update 2: It looks like I was right! Here's some recent news:
Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, Google is releasing Dartium, a Chromium build with native Dart support.
It’s more than likely that Dartium is part of a series of steps that Google will be taking to launch native support in Chrome — greatly improving the usefulness of Dart. Bringing native support into other browsers like Firefox and IE, on the other hand, will be quite the challenge.
Update 3: Since I posted this answer, Microsoft have released TypeScript which is a competing technology. I'd say it's unlikely that Microsoft have any intention of integrating Dart into Internet Explorer as they would probably prefer people to use TypeScript rather than Dart.
The official answer is Yes, Dart will run natively in Chrome. The branch of Chrome, affectionately called Dartium, is now available as source, and binaries will be released soon. More information on how to get and build the source: http://code.google.com/p/dart/wiki/BuildingDartium
As of March 25 of 2015, the offical answer is: no.
Source: Dart for the Entire Web
Google dropped the integration plan of the Dart VM into Chrome in favor of optimizing the Javascript compilation. Dartium is still accessible for development purposes.
Eventually, yes. The proposed MIME type + usage looks like this:
<script type="application/dart">
main() {
Element element = document.getElementById('message');
element.innerHTML = 'Hello from Dart';
}
</script>
(That example looks like JavaScript, but don't be fooled!)
Does anyone have experience with Chrome extension testing?
For example:
I want to create an extension that uses the
popup browser action, and automate a test case that checks the
behavior of the popup when clicked.[chromium issue]
Perhaps you could use selenium (it would be really great if this is possible).
Have you considered using a general purpose GUI-testing tool? If you are looking for a free, basic solution, check out Sikuli. There is a bunch of similar tools out there.
I've gotten some mileage using protractor to navigate to the url for the popup and running tests on it as if it were a regular page.