On cypress IDE I can't choose another browser except than 'Electron'. I would like to choose Chrome browser. Before it was possible to choose. But now it is impossible. How can I fix issue?
Thanks in advance for your help
As per the official documentation "Cypress automatically detects available browsers on your OS" (https://docs.cypress.io/guides/guides/launching-browsers#Browsers).
On linux, I would also recommend to use .deb files to install the browsers, using flatpak didn't work for me.
Windows and macos is the same, just make sure to have it installed.
I would also recommend checking the following:
Cypress 5.0 - Unable to find installed browsers
https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/2834
https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/troubleshooting#Common-GitHub-issues
I am learning to build a web application for Hbbtv using the Hbbtv SDK.
So for testing a sample app, I was looking for an emulator and came across FireHbbtv Extension by firefox.
However, whatever I do, it says the extension is not compatible with the version of Firefox. can any of you help with what is happening
Firehbbtv extension is abandoned, but you can install it using an old Firefox version (<52 as far I remember). Make sure the automatic updates are disabled if you want to keep the extension available.
There is another HbbTV plugin named hybridTV (https://github.com/karl-rousseau/HybridTvViewer) It works fine, but it is in development.
There is also a third option, using the opera (now called vewd) SDK. You can find the info and the virtual machine downloads visiting
https://www.vewd.com/products-services/vewd-tv-emulator/
I need to check a website on different chrome versions and I am trying to do it on the same machine. I don't know if this is still possible now or not. I know it was before from older questions such as here.
So my questions if it is possible how to install different version of chrome on the same computer ?
The only way to do is to use the unofficial !! portable chrome version.
To bypasse this you can use Browserling extention to performe your browser compatibility tests.
You could download an older version of Chromium from:
https://vikyd.github.io/download-chromium-history-version/
They can be installed alongside a regular Chrome.
This is my first time on this site. I have a HTML/CSS/JS application. For that application to work, we also have a browser npapi plugin ".so" file that is installed in plugins dir of firefox. This works on firefox browser on Linux. Now I want my application to run on Firefox OS (B2G). How do I port that ".so" plugin to firefox OS?.
What I have done is, I have built B2G and flashed it on my test device. I have built that plugin for android platform by using gecko sdk and firefox OS source. I have pushed my .so file in FFOS phone in /system/lib as well as /system/b2g (the folders where I can see other .so files.). Is that the correct approach? What else do I need to do to make it work. Currently my application is unable to load that plugin ( I checked using ./run-gdb ).
Any pointers would be helpful. I have gone through the documentation on mozilla website and also googled it alot but couldn't find the solution.
Thanks.
You are right, NPAPI is not supported on Firefox OS / B2G.
You do see code for it in the tree (and maybe even in the object directories) because much of the code is actually being used over different products (desktop Firefox, mobile Firefox, Firefox OS, ...).
Mozilla use single gecko engine to support all platform browsers. Those plugins are only used by desktop browsers.
Someone smart who I know just mentioned that the idea of downloading Internet Explorer onto a Mac seems counterintuitive, even though it might make sense to do since Safari seems to have problems on a certain site for a project we're working on. I'm just wondering why this is and would greatly appreciate any clarification. In summary:
Why does it not make sense to download Internet Explorer onto a Mac?
Much thanks in advance!
If you're looking for a serious answer:
The best way to test something with IE7 for Windows is to use IE7 for Windows. Just because you have a Mac doesn't mean you can't do that. You can run Windows through BootCamp. Or buy a used $99 Windows box and borrow the Mac's keyboard/mouse/etc. Of course it's much more convenient, and almost certainly good enough, to run Windows in a VM under OS X via Parallels, VMware, etc. Wine will mostly work, but it can be fiddly to configure, and may crash and/or have visual glitches that don't happen with real Windows; if you really want to get serious about that you may want to look at Crossover.
But the next best way to test IE7 for Windows is actually Opera. Of course in the case of bugs and quirks that are still present in later versions of IE, they'll do a perfect job of emulating IE7, but for bugs that were fixed, that's not a particularly important focus. Opera, on the other hand, works hard to be able to emulate the quirks of all of the important browsers. Make sure to enable IE quirks mode, and set the user agent to pretend to be IE7 for Windows, and you should be golden.
But for the question you actually asked, there is no blanket answer to this that could possibly be correct. There are many reasons it may not make sense to download Internet Explorer onto a Mac, and also many reasons why it might.
You can't run IE for Mac on any modern Mac.
If you have an ancient Mac, and it's running 10.2 or 10.3 rather than 10.4, it already has IE (and if you want to reinstall it, it's part of the OS X install), so there's no reason to download IE.
You also can't legally download IE for Mac from anywhere anymore (except as part of old versions of OS X).
And IE for Mac is actually far less like IE7 for Windows than any modern browser is.
You can't run IE for Windows (or Pocket IE for Windows Mobile) on Mac OS X.
But you can run it under wine.
And you can run it in a virtual machine running Windows.
Except that Windows comes with Internet Explorer, so there's no reason to download it.
Unless your Windows comes with an older version and you want to update it.
And a Mac can run Windows instead of OS X if you want (e.g., via BootCamp).
Same caveats as with a VM.
And there may be other reasons to download it other than running it.
If your Mac has access to a fast internet connection and your Windows box doesn't, you might want to download the installer on the Mac to copy it locally to Windows.
Sometimes you just want to use up internet bandwidth.
Maybe you're testing your download speeds.
Maybe you're about to dump your boyfriend, and first you want to run him $300 over his monthly bandwidth limits.
Someone at Microsoft might find it entertaining when they notice in the logs that you've downloaded IE on a Mac, and it's always nice to bring a smile to a stranger's face.
The last version of Internet Explorer for Macintosh was 5.2, out in 2003. It wouldn't even run on a modern machine. The build is just not compatible.
If you want to try a different browser, both Chrome and Firefox run on OSX.
To run internet explorer on the Mac, you'd need to use some sort virtualization, running Windows either through Boot Camp or Parallels.
I had to do it because I'm developing software and the client wants to have it styled for IE 7 (the version they have on all their machines).
If I had my druthers, I'd run it under virtualization (e.g., VMWare), but I've misplaced my old XP CDs, so I settled for Wine (which works 'okay', but crashes from time-to-time).
I suggest using VirtualBox which would enable you to run MSIE on your Mac directly:
https://www.virtualbox.org/
...and here are the VMs for MSIE 6, 7, 8 and 9:
https://github.com/xdissent/ievms
Good luck!
It's definitely not a good idea to install Internet Explorer for Mac. It simply doesn't work properly as it was discontinued by Microsoft in 2005. However, if you have to use it to view certain websites that will only work in IE, this is the easiest way to download and install it for Mac: http://machow2.com/download-internet-explorer-for-mac/