In the interest of completeness and clarity, here's the text of the error we get:
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/firewatir-1.8.1/lib/firewatir/firefox.rb:156:in `rescue in set_defaults': Unable to connect to machine : 127.0.0.1 on port 9997. Make sure that JSSh is properly installed and Firefox is running with '-jssh' option (Watir::Exception::UnableToStartJSShException) from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/firewatir-1.8.1/lib/firewatir/firefox.rb:148:in `set_defaults' from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/firewatir-1.8.1/lib/firewatir/firefox.rb:43:in `initialize' from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/firewatir-1.8.1/lib/firewatir/firefox.rb:73:in `new' from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/firewatir-1.8.1/lib/firewatir/firefox.rb:73:in `start' from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/commonwatir-1.8.1/lib/watir/browser.rb:71:in `start' from live_fido_crawler.rb:33:in `<main>' As I said before, jssh 0.9 *is* installed on the machine. Firewatir can use the browser fine as long as it's already open prior to the starting of the script. It just can't open a new browser window without the above error. -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com