As yet another, perhaps more user-friendly, option: in Firebug 1.13 alphas you can find elements that match xpath selectors through the HTML panel search field.
Den torsdagen den 19:e december 2013 kl. 00:39:05 UTC+1 skrev Sebastian Zartner: > > 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. >> > I assume you're talking about this message: > > *Warning:* Enabling the Script panel causes a Firefox slow-down due to a > platform > bug <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=815603>. This will be > fixed with the next major Firefox and Firebug versions. > > So if you don't need the Script panel, just disable it. > > Besides that showing strict warnings also can cause some slow-down. To > disable displaying strict warnings, you can uncheck the equally named > option within the Console panel options <http://goog_540211844>. > > 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 you just want to test XPaths, you really don't need Selenium IDE. > In Firebug there are two ways to test XPaths. One is the integrated > $xcommand<https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/$x>, > which returns different types of results depending on the XPath you are > testing. And for advanced testing you can use the extension > FirePath<https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Firebug_Extensions#FirePath>, > which selects matching elements within an HTML view and inside the page. > Results, which don't return elements are shown within its panel. And if > there are no matches, there's a hint at the bottom telling you so. > So if you think one of those two functionalities is "very unreliable", > please let us (in case of the $x command) or the FirePath authors know > what's wrong and provide a little test case, so your problem can be > reproduced. > > Sebastian > -- 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/6cad4bd2-90f4-4314-b5ca-804bf5e15aed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
