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Asked: 2026-05-22T20:25:00+00:00

I have a series of HTML tests that I am able to run using

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I have a series of HTML tests that I am able to run using the selenese goal, selenium-maven-plugin (version 1.1). I was able to run this for IE. However, this doesn’t work with Firefox 4. I keep getting a blank firefox window opening up and the server will just hang there. I believe that I’ve narrowed the problem down to the fact that the Selenium-maven-plugin uses the old Selenium 1.0 Core, which doesn’t function properly with Firefox 4.

I was wondering if there was some way, using Maven and Selenium 2.0, to run these HTML tests. The following is a snippet of my POM file.

     ...    
     <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <browser>*iexploreproxy</browser>
                <suite>src/test/selenium/html/suite.html</suite>
                <startURL>http://localhost:5555/</startURL>
                <port>5555</port>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>Run-Selenese-Scripts</id>
                    <phase>integration-test</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>selenese</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <port>5555</port>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
    ...

If there is any other way to run the HTML suites (besides the Selenium IDE) that I may have missed, please share.

Thanks,

Juan

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  1. Editorial Team

    I had this exact problem yesterday on OSX. Trying to use firefox 4 – a blank firefox window opens up and selenium-server doesn’t detect it. The only version which fixes this problem (on OSX anyway) is 2.0b3.

    I’ve got a fork of current trunk of upgraded to 2.0b3 on github: https://github.com/thelmstedt/selenium-maven-plugin. YMMV

    There is actually a way to override the selenium version in selenium-maven-plugin plugin declaration: see this jira issue for someone troubleshooting it.

    But the selenium folks have changed their maven packaging recently, and I was unable to use this to override to the latest 2.0b3 dependency. Compare the uploaded version 2.0b1 with 2.0b3. The correct way to declare a dependency on selenium is now with <type>pom</type>. I will be happy if it turns out I’m wrong on this.

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