9 Important Tips for Selenium Remote Control (Java client) - Test Tool
April 16th, 2008 by Angsuman Chakraborty
Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in many programming languages against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser. Selenium RC is a powerful and simple framework for running (scheduled or manually) automated UI centric regression tests for web applications / services. Here are few simple tips for Selenium RC java client. I used JUnit for tests. You can use NGUnit too.
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US Non-Immigrant Visa Application Rejects Firefox Users
March 22nd, 2008 by Angsuman Chakraborty
The online US non-immigrant visa application site - https://www.vfs-usa.co.in/ doesn’t allow you to submit the visa application using the popular Firefox browser.
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Falling Microsoft Internet Explorer Market Share 2002-2007
December 7th, 2007 by Angsuman Chakraborty
Microsoft was the sole leading browser (all versions combined) in 2002-2003 with over 85% of market share. The earlier leader Netscape had by then sunk into oblivion. Flash forward 2007 and we can see Microsoft Internet Explorer barely holding on to over 50% market share with its fortunes steadily declining. It is still at 57% (all versions combined) as of October 2007.
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How To Test Web Application on Internet Explorer 5.5, 6, 7 on Windows & Mac Safari, Firefox , Linux…
December 7th, 2007 by Angsuman Chakraborty
Cross-browser and cross-platform testing is a bane as well as a requirement for web applications. Consider Internet Explorer on Windows. There are two major version 6 & 7, not to mention still used 5.5. You need to either use different machines or multi-boot machines or use hacks to run them simultaneously or virtualization software like VMWare; not of them are really easy to setup and use for common web developer. Then you have Opera & Firefox (we develop in Firefox so it gets tested first in our case). Did I mention testing on Mac with Safari, Firefox and other browsers? Oh, and don’t forget Linux too. Are you feeling overwhelmed? Let’s see how you can solve most of these problems.
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Browser, Fedora 7, Fedora Core 6, Firefox, Headline News, How To, Internet Explorer, Linux, Linux Migration, Microsoft, Quality Assurance, Safari, Web, Web Services, Windows | Feedback | RSS 2.0 | Email this Article
How To Change Firefox Location Bar Searching
November 18th, 2007 by Angsuman Chakraborty
By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I’m Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above. Here is how you can change it.
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How To Detect AdBlock Plus
November 12th, 2007 by Angsuman Chakraborty
AdBlock Plus is a controversial Firefox plugin to prevent ads from displaying on web pages. There is a simple procedure to detect (and take appropriate action) AdBlock Plus.
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AdSense, Firefox, Google, Headline News, How To, Marketing, Open Source Software, Web, Web Services | 2 Comments | RSS 2.0 | Email this Article
How To Run Multiple Firefox Instance From Different Accounts in Linux
September 2nd, 2007 by Angsuman Chakraborty
In Linux, unlike Windows, multiple users can simultaneously connect to the same machine and get a full GUI using windows managers like VNC. However when one of the account has Firefox opened, others are prevented from bringing up firefox which can be very much irritating. The solution is to bring up firefox with the following command:
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Congratulations WordPress Plugin Contest Winners & Translator Pro Winner
August 26th, 2007 by Angsuman Chakraborty
The WordPress plugin contest results were just announced by Mark Ghosh. We sponsored a copy of Translator Pro 5.0 plugin for the competition. The winners are:
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Browser, Firefox, Headline News, PHP, Pro Blogging, Programming, Translator Plugin Pro, Web, Web 2.0, WordPress, WordPress Plugin | Feedback | RSS 2.0 | Email this Article
Simple Firefox DNS Hacks To Boost Performance
August 10th, 2007 by Angsuman Chakraborty
While an individual DNS request often takes small time to execute, when the primary DNS server is overloaded or unavailable it can take quite sometime to resolve your requests. Now what has that to do with improving Firefox performance?
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Solutions: Internet Explorer 6 Visibility Bug With ExtJS ComboBox on Toolbar
July 30th, 2007 by Angsuman Chakraborty
An Ext JS, a beautiful Javascript Library, ComboBox on a Toolbar fails to display when the browser window is resized or there is another div with 100% width. The problem is most likely related to resizing of the Toolbar which causes the ComboBox to stop displaying.
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Ajax, Browser, ExtJS, Firefox, Headline News, How To, Internet Explorer, Javascript, Programming, Web, Web 2.0 | Feedback | RSS 2.0 | Email this Article
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