Thanks. Did not see this until now. As an alternative I was using the Firebug Firefinder which works for a while but then stops working (clicking Filter doesn't do anything even if I use //* or .//* as xpath). It seems like a javascript error or something is prohibiting it from working, but restarting does not help.
On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:19:38 AM UTC-6, Tony Chamberlain wrote: > > I am writing Selenium scripts with Eclipse (only tangentially related). > To find XPATHs I use "view XPATH" which sort of works but what I really > need to do is inspect HTML using Firebug, and then run Selenium IDE which > has an XPATH "find" command so I can type in what I think is an XPATH, hit > find and it will highlight it on the web page. > > The problem, this works sometimes. It would work all the time but my > Firefox screen seems to lock up at times and I can't type anything in. > Sometimes I have to reboot, and I may still have the problem. > > I noticed once when I clicked on Firebug console that it said "enabling > this causes a firefox stop or slowdown or something". I can't get this > warning again. It is not showing up. I must have accidentally cleared it. > > So my question: is there a problem running firebug, firefox and selenium > IDE? There is for me. Is it due to this error above or some other > reason? What can I do about it? I need Selenium IDE only to test XPATHs. > True, Firebug has an xpath tester but it is very unreliable and quite > often, testing an xpath does nothing (shows nothing found but also shows no > errors and does not say "no matches found"). If there was another way to > test XPATHs on a web page I could use that. > > Some info > > Firefox version: 25.0 (please don't tell me to upgrade, as it won't work > with Subbu's Selenium scripts). > Firebug version: 1.12.5 > Selenium IDE: 2.4.0 > > Eclipse: Probably irrelevant but is the latest version 20130919-0819 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/firebug/6ab8c06c-a4b5-454a-9828-3bfb4fcdabee%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
