[wtr-general] Intermittent Watir issue with Firefox

2011-02-03 Thread Stephen Mc Gowan
Hi, I'm seeing an intermittent watir issue with firefox. I really don't know whats causing it, I can't seem to cause it to happen reliably. I've seen a thread from last may discussing something similar and a really hacky work around:http://osdir.com/ml/watir-general/2010-05/msg00134.html I guess

Re: [wtr-general] Intermittent Watir issue with Firefox

2011-02-03 Thread Prajakta Jadhav
How are you using 'watir' for firefox? You should be using 'firewatir', right? -Prajakta On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Stephen Mc Gowan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeing an intermittent watir issue with firefox. I really don't know > whats causing it, I can't seem to cause it to happen reliably. I'

Re: [wtr-general] Intermittent Watir issue with Firefox

2011-02-03 Thread Stephen Mc Gowan
I'm using it as the Watir in 5 minutes tutorial, from Watir's homepage, says to: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Watir+in+5+Minutes Watir::Browser.default = 'firefox' b = Watir::Browser.new Firewatir and watir have merged so you only need to do this now and you don't have to specifically refe

Re: [wtr-general] Intermittent Watir issue with Firefox

2011-02-07 Thread Bill Agee
Hi, Since posting that suggestion for that hack to rescue/retry a failed Firefox launch, I tried another approach which worked a little better. :) To give the Firefox browser instance more time to initialize before FireWatir tries to drive it, you can pass an optional wait time value (at least if

Re: [wtr-general] Intermittent Watir issue with Firefox

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen Mc Gowan
Hey, Thanks for the reply, this looks like a much better solution. But you're right it would be good if we could pass firefox arguments in Browser.new(). Anyone have any ideas? Cheers, Stephen On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Bill Agee wrote: > Hi, > > Since posting that suggestion for that h