Showing posts with label ie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ie. Show all posts

Friday, June 26, 2009

Firefox Environment Backup Extension

My new favorite Firefox extension is "Firefox Environment Backup Extension" or FEBE. My work machine, still a desktop, is my most finely tuned box. My home machine is always lagging behind in Firefox (and Emacs) updates. I have often wished for something like FEBE and now its here. FEBE allows you to export all your Firefox extensions and settings and import them into another computer. A nice addition to the thousands of Firefox extensions.
I'm sure Internet Explorer 8 has something similar since the latest Microsoft sponsored browser "Get The Facts" report gives IE8 and Firefox both a check for customizability. (Can somebody tell me why the delicious tags on Microsoft's "Get The Facts For Browsers" page are "funny" and "humor"?)

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Watir Tip

I ran into a problem using Watir - it could not find a frame that is really on the page. I got this error:

c:/opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.2/./watir.rb:2664:in `locate':
Unable to locate a frame with name frmeLHS (Watir::Exception::UnknownFrame Exception)

Oddly enough the problem was with my Internet Explorer security settings. Adding the domain to my "trusted sites" ("Tools/Internet Options.../Security/Trusted sites/Sites.../Add") did the trick.