I gave a talk on Acceptance Testing at RailsConf yesterday, showcasing
Watir, Selenium, and Sahi.  Since I have a MacBook Pro (and I hadn't
installed Parallels/WinXP yet), I wanted to show off FireWatir.  Alas,
it appears that the JSSH XPI that FireWatir relies upon doesn't work
on Mac Firefox.  Dave Liebreich from Mozilla was able to get me a
Firefox + JSSH build and Chris McMahon was able to get me the latest
Watir source built into a gem (can't do that w/o Windows currently),
and then I had to comment out any win32 stuff that Watir does when it
is require'd, and voila, FireWatir on the Mac.  It still suffers from
insanely slow performace, but it's a start.

Dave is still working on getting the JSSH XPI for the Mac working, but
until then, he has graciously hosted an Intel-only Firefox+JSSH binary
here: http://people.mozilla.org/~davel/jssh/
More info here: http://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?page_id=6
Once he gets the XPI working, he will likely take down the Firefox binary.

Thank you everyone working on (Fire)Watir, it's a great tool, and I
hope that more work can be done to bring it onto the other browsers.

Dave Hoover
http://redsquirrel.com/dave/
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