Comments on: Selenium on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

By: chrispanda

chrispanda — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:14:09 +0000

see
http://rubythings.blogspot.com/
for an alternative that might work – it worked for me on interpid ibex

By: Niels

Niels — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:04:44 +0000

I could not get the above to work, but what I found here worked:
http://willbryant.net/software/2008/05/26/selenium_rc_firefox_2_on_ubuntu_hardy

sudo apt-get install firefox-2
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-2-bin /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin

By: Larry Zoumas

Larry Zoumas — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:06:42 +0000

As we say in Sweden… ‘Tusen Tack!’ (one thousand thank yous!)

By: Vinod Pandey

Vinod Pandey — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:40:12 +0000

view /etc/ld.so.conf
add enty for library of firefox in .conf file listed in the above file
for example add /usr/lib/firefox in
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf

then sudo su -
lddconfig

or ldconfig

By: Radek

Radek — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:40:14 +0000

Hi
I have the same problem. I’ve tried your sollution, but when I install firefox 2 and try running firefox-2-bin I get:
15:33:39.062 INFO – Preparing Firefox profile…
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-2-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The library file IS in /usr/lib/firefox which is on the PATH environment.
Any ideas how to pass this?

By: Paulo

Paulo — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:34:12 +0000

Hi, I had the same issue and found this website via google. I just tried the nightly build and it’s fixed. Selenium would get stuck waiting for the user to accept the EULA. You can see in the source code (LauncherUtils.java) that they put a workaround for this.

By: naro

naro — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:39:30 +0000

Thanks! This blog entry solved exactly the same problem I had with Firefox 3 on Mac OS X. I copied Firefox.app to Firefox2.app before installing FF3 and solved Selenium problem with:

export SELENIUM_BROWSER=’*firefox /Applications/Firefox2.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin’