Monthly Archives: October 2010

Using the Findbar in Your Firefox Add-ons – Part 2/3

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Samit Badle

This is the second post of a three part series that details my experiences with the findbar widget which is available in Firefox and also provides a bit of information on XBL and anonymous ids. Controlling the Findbar Visibility The … Continue reading →

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Using the Findbar in Your Firefox Add-ons – Part 1/3

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Samit Badle

This is the first post of a three part series that details my experiences with the findbar widget which is available in Firefox and also provides a bit of information on XBL and anonymous ids. Firefox is my primary browser. … Continue reading →

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The File Logging Plugin for Selenium IDE v1.7 Released

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Samit Badle

The version 1.7 of my File Logging plugin for Selenium IDE is now available on the Firefox addons site. This version brings a bunch of user experience improvements and major internal improvements. This version saves the current log level for the … Continue reading →

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A Quick Introduction to CSS Locators in Selenium

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Samit Badle

While writing my recent posts on alternate locators, locator builders and Seleninum plugin API, I skipped over a truely basic question. What is a CSS locator in Selenium? It seems that some people are still looking for the answer(tm)! As you already … Continue reading →

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The Selenium-IDE 1.x plugin API (Part 12) – Adding Locator Builders

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Samit Badle

With the new 1.0.8 release, Selenium IDE will introduce some more API features. This time with a new method addPluginProvidedIdeExtension(). As the name suggests, this method adds support for plugins to provide IDE extensions. It takes the chrome URL of the … Continue reading →

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Creating CSS Locator Builders for Selenium IDE

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Samit Badle

Selenium IDE has a very powerful extension support. In this post I am going to show you how easy it is to extend Selenium IDE with new locator builders. A locator in Selenium is a means of identifying an element … Continue reading →

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Learn Alternate Locators Using Selenium IDE

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Samit Badle

A locator in Selenium is a means of identifying an element for the selenium command. Usually it is the target part of the command. Did you know that when recording with the Selenium IDE, sometimes the target textbox changes into … Continue reading →

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