Start Firefox with -jsconsole option

JustinWyllie

Hi

I'd like to start Firefox with the -jsconsole option so we can view JavaScript errors.

E.g. firefox -jsconsole

However, when we start Firefox via the SAHI test runner script it seems we cannot pass this option to the browser. There are a limited number of flags. We are using browserType and the output says browserOptions will be ignored in this case. I'm not even sure if we could pass -jsconsole via browserOptions.

Can anyone help?

with thanks

Justin Wyllie

_dkulkarni

Hi Justin,

Follow these steps:

Click on "Configure" link on Sahi's dashboard. In "browser_types.xml", look for the <browserType> node with the <name> tag's value "firefox"
Now, modify the <options> tag to look like this:

<options>-profile "$userDir/browser/ff/profiles/sahi$threadNo" -no-remote -jsconsole</options>

Click "Save" and restart Sahi

The next time you run your script with TestRunner, you should be able to see the console.

Regards,
dkulkarni