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Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web

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Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web

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Post by wendroid »

I have used it before now. I made it write the URL of the currentp age to a listener than processed it and sent back any js it decided to run (whcih sounds a bit inner platform but I had my reasons). It is a nifty little tool though I have a slight concern because it has had no updates since 2008 and looks like it might be an orphan.

Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web

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Post by joshu »

wendroid wrote: post #3

I have used it before now. I made it write the URL of the currentp age to a listener than processed it and sent back any js it decided to run (whcih sounds a bit inner platform but I had my reasons). It is a nifty little tool though I have a slight concern because it has had no updates since 2008 and looks like it might be an orphan.

Looks like there was a december 2009 release?

Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web

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Post by wendroid »

joshu wrote: post #4
wendroid wrote: post #3

I have used it before now. I made it write the URL of the currentp age to a listener than processed it and sent back any js it decided to run (whcih sounds a bit inner platform but I had my reasons). It is a nifty little tool though I have a slight concern because it has had no updates since 2008 and looks like it might be an orphan.

Looks like there was a december 2009 release?

Ah, stupid me. I was going by the copyright notices. I was using it before Dec 2009 when I had my concerns.

Go Chickenfoot !

Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web

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Post by Maciek416 »

mcantelon wrote: post #6

How does it compare in capabilities to Selenium?

One significant advantage that Selenium seems to have is that it accepts CSS3 selectors as target element patterns. Chickenfoot has XPath, but not CSS3. A bit of a bummer because this otherwise looks like it will be fun to play with.

Re: Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web

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Post by squidsoup »

Maciek416 wrote: post #8
mcantelon wrote: post #6

How does it compare in capabilities to Selenium?

One significant advantage that Selenium seems to have is that it accepts CSS3 selectors as target element patterns. Chickenfoot has XPath, but not CSS3. A bit of a bummer because this otherwise looks like it will be fun to play with.

I use Selenium regularly and while it is exceptionally useful, it's also quite buggy. I heard mumblings some time ago about Google contributing to the Selenium project or even forking it, but I'm not certain what's happened there.
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