Limitations for Testing with Mozilla Firefox

The following limitations are known when testing web applications with Silk Test Classic on Mozilla Firefox:

• Silk Test Classic does not support Mozilla Firefox 47, 48, 49, 50, and 51. However, Silk Test Classic supports Mozilla Firefox 47.0.1 and 47.0.2
• Testing on multiple Mozilla Firefox windows at the same time is only supported if the additional windows are opened from the initial Mozilla Firefox window by the AUT itself. If the additional Mozilla Firefox windows are opened manually, Silk Test Classic does not recognize the elements on these Mozilla Firefox windows. For example, Silk Test Classic recognizes the elements in a Mozilla Firefox window that is opened by clicking on a link or a button in the AUT during recording, but Silk Test Classic does not recognize the elements in a Mozilla Firefox window that was opened by pressing CTRL+N during recording.
• Silk Test Classic does not support testing modal browser windows, which are windows that can be displayed with the window.showmodaldialog command. These modal browser windows have been officially deprecated, and are disabled with Google Chrome 37 or later, while they are planned to no longer be supported in future versions of Mozilla Firefox. You can workaround this issue by using low-level actions, for example native clicks with coordinates to click on an object or typekeys to fill out text fields.
• Silk Test Classic does not support testing Silverlight with Mozilla Firefox.
• Silk Test Classic does not support testing some browser dialogs, for example the About dialog, with Mozilla Firefox.
• Silk Test Classic does not support testing about:* pages with Mozilla Firefox.
• Silk Test Classic does not support recording a click on the Print button in Mozilla Firefox. To click on this button during replay, you can manually add a desktop click with coordinates to your test script. For example:

  [ ] RECT rect = printButton.GetRect(true)
  [ ] DesktopOA.Click(MB_LEFT, rect.xPos + (rect.xSize / 2), rect.yPos + (rect.ySize / 2))

• Silk Test does not provide native support for Mozilla Firefox. You cannot test internal Mozilla Firefox functionality. For example, in a test, you cannot change the currently displayed web page by adding text to the navigation bar through Win32. As a workaround, you can use API calls to navigate between web pages. Silk Test supports handling alerts and similar dialog boxes through the Alerts API.
• Silk Test Classic does not support recording locators on JavaScript alert boxes with Mozilla Firefox. With Mozilla Firefox version 58 or prior, you can use the following methods to handle Javascript alert boxes:
  • AcceptAlert
  • DismissAlert
  • GetAlertText
  • IsAlertPresent
  Note: You cannot use these methods with Mozilla Firefox 59 or later.
• Silk Test Classic does not support Java applets for Mozilla Firefox 52 or later. Silk Test Classic supports Java applets for Mozilla Firefox 47.0.1 or prior with the following limitations:
  • Silk Test Classic does not support the locator //AppletContainer.
  • When the applet opens a modal dialog, a locator similar to //BrowserApplication//BrowserWindow/JDialog[@caption='Information']//JButton[@caption='OK'] might not work. You can use a locator like //JDialog[@caption='Information']//JButton[@caption='OK'] instead.
• Silk Test Classic does not support properties in XPath expressions for Mozilla Firefox. Only attributes are supported in XPath expressions.
• Silk Test Classic does not support the GetFocus method of the MoveableWin class.
• Silk Test does not support testing child technology domains of the xBrowser domain with Mozilla Firefox. For example Apache Flex or Microsoft Silverlight are not supported with Mozilla Firefox.
• With Mozilla Firefox 52 or later, the following methods are not supported:
  • PressKeys
  • ReleaseKeys
• With Mozilla Firefox 52 or prior, the SetViewportSize method of the BrowserWindow class is not supported.
• With Mozilla Firefox 52 or later, native playback for the following is not supported:
  • Double-click.
  • Right and middle mouse button click.
• With Mozilla Firefox 52 or later, the DomClick method is not supported on controls that open an alert.
• With Mozilla Firefox 55, uploading a file does not work. For additional information, see File upload no longer works with geckodriver 0.18.0 and Firefox 55.