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Useful Firefox add-on tools that help write tests with Selenium

Posted on Sun 6 December 2009 at 15:58 in Selenium

DOM Inspector

 

DOM Inspector is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit the live DOM of any web document or XUL application. The DOM hierarchy can be navigated using a two-paned window that allows for a variety of different views on the document and all nodes within.

Inspects the structure and properties of a window and its contents.

Note: This add-on depends on binary changes to Firefox, and will not work with Firefox 2.

 

Available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6622

 

XPath Checker

 

An interactive editor for XPath expressions. Choose 'View XPath' in the context menu and it will show the editor. You can edit the XPath expression and it incrementally updates the results.

 

Available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1095

 

Firebug

 

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

 

Available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

 

Venkman Javascript Debugger

 

Venkman is the code name for Mozilla's JavaScript Debugger. Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers.

 

Available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/216

 

Web Developer

 

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

 

Available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

 

Regular Expression Tester

 

Testing Tool for regular expressions with colour highlighting.  The tool includes options like case sensitive, global and multi-line search, colour highlighting of found expressions and of special characters, a replacement function including back references, auto-closing, testing while writing and saving and managing of expressions.

 

Available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2077

 

HTML Validator

 

HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing.

 

Available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249

 

Xpather

 

Feature rich XPath generator, editor, inspector and simple extraction tool.  Requires DOM Inspector plug-in for it to work.

 

Available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1192

 

ColorZilla

 

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

This is essentially web page DOM colour analyser that analyse DOM element colours on any Web page, find out what CSS rules set the colours, locate corresponding elements.  Displays element information like tag name, class, id, size, relative mouse position etc.

 

Available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271

 

 

 How to install Firefox Add-ons?

 

  • Select tools
  • Select add-ons
  • get add-ons
  • search for add-ons or browse all add-ons
  • select add-on
  • add to firefox
  • install now
  • restart firefox

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