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Semme wrote:Today >> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/2 ... easenotes/

MDN wrote: Marionette is available in all Firefox builds; it is not enabled, however, unless you launch Firefox with the -marionette command-line argument.[1]

MDN wrote: What is Marionette?

Marionette is an automation driver. It can remotely drive either the UI or the internal JavaScript of a program built on the Gecko platform, such as Firefox or Firefox OS. Marionette runs as a server on your test machine, allowing you to connect to that server and remotely drive tests and send commands. Its goal is to replicate what Selenium does for the browser: to enable the tester to have the ability to send commands to a remote test machine.

Marionette shares much of the same API as Selenium/WebDriver, and makes writing tests easy. You have the API to drive user actions like page navigation and element clicking, but also the ability to execute arbitrary JavaScript scripts, allowing for a greater variety of tests.


When would I use it?

If you want to utilize user interaction with chrome or content, Marionette is the tool you're looking for, but it is also capable of doing much more! Marionette lives in both the chrome and content space of a gecko process, so it is capable of running commands in any of these spaces.

This means you can run any JS script in chrome or in content. This is a powerful feature, enabling a user to do anything from inspecting the content DOM of a Firefox instance running in a remote machine to executing a script that changes profile preferences in privileged chrome space.[2]

marionette.log wrote: 1379630108356 Marionette INFO MarionetteComponent loaded
1379630109167 Marionette INFO marionette enabled via command-line
1379630109202 Marionette INFO marionette-server.js loaded
1379630109321 Marionette INFO Listening on port 2828

1379630109322 Marionette INFO Marionette server ready

Old Codger wrote:Just had the experience of old and new installs of Lupu_526 going through a sequence of FF updates - variously something like 5 > 12 > 17 > 25 in the space of 15min!

Every time I checked Help to see what version it was now, it had started updating again...

Anyway, if mozilla hadn't changed there numbering convention, 25 might only be 3.8.76 perhaps!

Help search on mozilla dot org for "Marionette" had zero links, I am suspicious.

Any method of purging this Broswer Component, or "commenting-out"?

Burn_IT wrote:Mine failed on the update from 24 to 25 for some reason.
I need to investigate when I get time at home.

ThoriumBlvd wrote:nooby... burunduk's posting on page 13. On my machine it is installed, but not running. I get nervous a little about remote controlling a computer. I can live with it as long as its not running. The Tools window can disable it.
Things have changed a lot since my FF3 install, about: help is not the way to get info lol, its a full menu now. (If it ain't broke don't fix it, FF3 is no longer supported at many websites now, so Heeeeerrrrrsss Puppy! That would be Thorium doing the happy dance)