Comments on: How to build Firefox 3.5+ with JSSH on Ubuntu 9.10 64bit

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:34:04 +0000

I ran into this issue today trying to get Watir working on Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64. Before I started ripping Firefox apart I happened to come across a much easier solution… at least for me. It uses two modules, selenium-webdriver and watir-webdriver. I haven’t looked too much into the technicalities yet but it seems that selenium-webdriver provides it’s own version of the different browsers and it doesn’t depend on the embedded javascript core (which is why watir won’t run on firefox without the jssh extension). Check it out here: http://zeljkofilipin.com/2010/01/12/watir-on-webdriver/.

By: William

William — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:33:30 +0000

@Colin:

Nevermind, I got the same error. Fixed it by changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=”$PWD/firefox-jssh/dist/lib/:/usr/lib/:/lib” firefox-jssh/dist/bin/firefox-bin -jssh

By: William

William — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:58:44 +0000

@Colin:

You might try changing this line in .mozconfig:

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser

to this:

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser,xulrunner

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:08:15 +0000

hi -

Problem – successfully installed originally but now when trying to run

/firefox-jssh/dist/bin/firefox-bin -jssh

I get the message:

error while loading shared libraries: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any idea how to resolve?

Thanks
Colin

By: LeewardBound

LeewardBound — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:19:44 +0000

Very helpful! Thanks for the write up! Many props! I will now take over the interweb!

By: Josh Moore

Josh Moore — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:11:35 +0000

Thanks for the write up! This helped me a lot to get firefox working with JSSH