Secondly, we’ll give away some unique tricks to help you find locators on the web pages. In today’s post, first, we are sharing the step by step instructions to install the FireBug and FirePath add-ons for Firefox. The next step for you is to learn about the tools that can help you in finding the locators. If you are just a beginner in test automation, then you must read this post. In our last blog post, we’d explained various types of Selenium locators with useful examples. Quite ironically though, both the somewhat “old” Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and 10.04 Lucid Lynx users can install Firefox 9.0 already thanks to the Mozilla PPA officially! (well I guess Ubuntu is just giving a bit of an extra care for their recent releases here).Īs usual, for that, open your Terminal window and enter the below commands.Let’s start to learn how can we install and use Firebug and FirePath, the two most used Firefox browser plugins for test automation developers. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppaīut remember, these packages are still not released officially and in their “testing” periods thus you’d better off waiting for the official release :). But if you just can’t wait then you can try install Firefox 9.0 using the Mozilla Security repository (which includes packages that are waiting for their final testings and approval for official releases).įor that you can use the below commands in your Terminal window. If you use Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot or 11.04 Natty Narwhal then they haven’t come up with the updates officially yet. The most significant change in this version of Firefox is obviously the Java-script engine’s performance which can result in a performance increase of 50% or more but it only applies while loading some web sites. Few new icon mouse hoover effects which looks cool. And now users can know whether “Do-not-Track” feature is enabled/disabled via a Java-Script.

If you care about the numbers, then they say that it’s around 30% or more faster this time when comparing with previous releases. Some of the other main features to mention… And although I don’t care that much since I don’t use Mac OSX but if you do, then according to Mozilla now Firefox supports “two finger swipe” too. Simultaneous to this, they’ve also released a totally re-designed version for the Android platform. As with previous releases, this version too includes few improvements (both performance/speed and enhanced security, etc) and bug fixes as usual.

Few hours ago Mozilla released the latest version of the Firefox Web browser 9.0.

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