From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2008-12-03T07:16:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone scraping dynamic AJAX sites?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Florian Gilcher <flo@andersground.net> wrote:
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> Actually, firewatir and scRUBYt! are nice.
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> But is there a possibility to start firefox with a second profile (so that
> it circumvents the "one instance"-rule) and rendering to a hidden display?
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> Otherwise, this really hurts testablity (as the browser might retain your
> personal session) and usability on a deployment server.
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> Regards,
> Florian Gilcher
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> [1]: Preferably a virtal one on a console-only machine.
> [2]: Sadly, afaik, firefox has no hidden-mode.

http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/