The XPath query in your example looks wrong: it should be `@value`, not just
`value`.
Assuming that's just a typo, the Firefox XPath engine probably checks the
*content attribute* (often called just "attribute", equivalent to
`$x("//textarea")[0].getAttribute("value")`), but the actual text of the
textarea is in the *IDL attribute* (often called "property", equivalent to
`$x("//textarea")[0].value`). WebDriver's `getAttribute` falls back to the
property if the attribute isn't set.
PS. You don't need the `instance_variable_get` hacks, just call
`e.attribute(:value)`.
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