[Wtr-general] I want to use Watir to test Firefox and Safari

[Nathan]

Hi, I am an experienced developer/tester and have been using Watir for a couple of months now. I have read a lot about Selenium also, and have noted that people are concerned about the need to install Selenium on the server, because it has to be served from the same location as the web page being tested. Well I share this concern, but not because it might be difficult, or because of some other experience reason, rather because it is not good practice, nor will we ever install third party tools on our production servers. This causes a problem with using selenium for my company, and that is that our production environment is generally more stable and better than our dev or qa environments. So what to do? I've read about FireWatir, but have not been able to find much on it. I'd prefer not to rebuild Firefox with that COM-like plugin because that makes it so that I'm not using exactly the same firefox as the rest of the world, and could produce different results than the real world sees, I also am unable to find the plugin for firefox as a separate program plugin. So I guess I can't test firefox or safari with watir. Does anybody know of a way to accomplish what I wish with JUST Watir? Please help, thanks.

Nathan
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