Configuring Firefox for Test Studio Automation

Note: Firefox 4.0 or above is required for the 2012 R1 version released in April 2012.
Note: The following Add-ons are known to conflict with the Telerik Testing Firefox Client:
  • AOL Messaging Toolbar
  • FoxyProxyStandard

 

 

Ensure the Zoom Level is set to 100%.

  1. On the main menu click on View and then Zoom.
  2. Choose Reset (or use the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + 0).

 

 

Turn off the popup blocker first and make sure JavaScript is enabled:

  1. On the main menu click on Tools and then Options. In version 4, click the orange Firefox menu in the upper left and then Options.
  2. Click on the Content tab.
  3. Uncheck the Block pop-up windows checkbox.
  4. Alternatively, if you would prefer to keep the pop-up blocker enabled, you can add all the addresses of your test websites to the Exceptions list. The problem with this approach is that any changes or any new test websites will need to be added to the list.
  5. Make sure Enable JavaScript is checked.

 

 

Test Studio requires pop-ups to open in their own window instead of a tab. Follow this procedure to change this setting in Firefox:

  1. Within the Options menu, click on the Tabs tab.
  2. Uncheck Open new windows in a new tab instead.  
  3. Click OK.

 

 

If Firefox is configured to Show my windows and tabs from last time, it can cause problems for Test Studio when it tries to connect to the web browser as it opens up. Test Studio can only connect to the first tab and will fail if that tab automatically opens up to anything but a blank page. So we're going to configure Firefox to open up to a new blank page every time.

  1. Within the Options menu, click on the General tab.
  2. Change the When Firefox starts selection to Show a blank page.

 

If you'll be performing downloads as part of your testing, you'll also need to make one more adjustment. Show the downloads window, do not close it automatically, and ask where to save downloaded files by following this procedure:

  1. Within the Options menu, click on the "General" tab.
  2. Check Show the Downloads window...
  3. Uncheck Close it when all downloads are finished.
  4. Select Always ask me where to save files.

 

 

If your web application uses cookies, be sure that cookies are enabled in the browser by following one of procedures below that matches your version of Firefox:

 

Firefox 2.x - 3.x

  1. Within the Options menu, click on the Privacy tab.
  2. Make sure that Accept cookies and Accept third-party cookies are both checked.

 

 

Firefox 3.5 - current

  1. Within the Options menu, click on the Privacy tab.
  2. Make sure that the History option is set to Remember history.

 

 

As of the 2012 R1 version released in April 2012, set the Connection Settings to Use system proxy settings.

  1. Within the Advanced menu, click on the Network tab.
  2. Click the Settings button in the Connection section.
  3. Click Use system proxy settings, then click OK.

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