Re: [tlug] Reloading a Firefox Page from the Command Line

[Henri Servomaa <r_muffin@example.com>]

Curt Sampson kirjoitti 23.2.2008 kello 9.24:
> Actually, just moving my cursor into the window and typing control-R
> does the "reload" part of what I need. What I'm looking for is the
> "remote" part. When I'm editing page content or CSS or whatever, I've
> got a special save command in my editor that finds the install script
> for the part of the website that I'm working on and runs it. I'd  
> like to
> add an option to that script that will also tell Firefox to reload the
> page it's currently displaying so that I can see my changes instantly
> when I save, without having to move the cursor and type control-R  
> every
> time. When tweaking CSS, for example, I might be making making a  
> change
> every couple of seconds, and the move-and-control-R-and-move-back
> routine can start to eat a significant percentage of my time.

Maybe the Selenium test suite will provide what you want.
We haven't used it the way you are describing what you want to do,
but it's probably worth looking into.

 http://selenium-rc.openqa.org/

It's a bit involved, but fully scriptable, also in ruby.


Cheers,

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Henri