Installation of Firebug And How to Install Selenium IDE





Installation of Firebug And How to Install Selenium IDE

Requirement for the installation of Selenium IDE:
è   Mozilla Firefox
è   Active internet connection

If we don’t have Mozilla Firefox till now then we need to download and install it from the following url:  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new

Following are the steps for installing the Selenium:
So first navigate the http://seleniumhq.org/download/. Now from the section of Selenium IDE, Need to click on link that displays on the present version number:

How to Install Selenium IDE
How to Install Selenium IDE


Due to security reasons, there will be notification of pop up of firefox, which need to ‘Allow’.

Now wait for the download completion of Firefox and then Click on the ‘Install Now’ button.


Installation of Selenium IDE
Installation of Selenium IDE


Now wait for the completion of Installation. From the pop up window, Just click on the Restart Now button.

After the restart of FireFox, Now start the Selenium IDE utilizing either of following methods:
è   By hitting the Ctrl + Alt + S
è   By Click on the Menu -> Web Developer -> Selenium IDE

Starting the Selenium IDE
Starting the Selenium IDE


Now Selenium IDE should Start like display the given below screen:

Selenium IDE
Selenium IDE


Installation of Firebug:

What is Firebug – Firebug is the Firefox add-on that you will utilize to inspect the elements of HTML of the website applications under the test. It will give you the nme of the elements that your Selenese commands would acts upon.

=> Utilize the Firefox to navigate the download page of Firebug getfirebug.com/downloads/ and then click on the link of download.

Installation of Firebug
Installation of Firebug


ð    Now firefox will carry us to its download section of Firebug. Click on the ‘Add To Firefox’ button.
ð    Wait for the Firefox to fulfill the add-on download. On the dialog box of that comes after, just click on the ‘Install Now’ button.
ð    Now wait for the completion of installation. A notifications of pop up will say – Firebug has been installed successfully. We can close this pop up immediately now.
Note: In case if we don’t see above pop up, no need to worry! This pop up will visible for the few seconds and then invisible. We don’t require to restart the firefox after installation of Firebug.

ð    Now just Launch the Firebug by either the given below ways:
-        Press the F12
-        Now hit the button of Firebug on the top right corner of the given Firefox window.
ð    Firebug will launch at the bottom from the firefox as display below:


launching the Firebug
launching the Firebug


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