UI Spy can't navigate portions of FireFox

I was hoping to automate FireFox, but I am unable to navigate to certain controls. UI Spy is also unable to navigate to the controls and gives the following exception:

UI Automation tree navigation is broken. The parent of one of the descendants exist but the descendant is not the child of the parent

Is this most likely a FireFox issue or a problem that will be worked out in future versions of .NET 3 Any ideas to get around this

Thanks!
James



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UI Spy can't navigate portions of FireFox

  • Mohanraj_k

    Firefox use XUL to build its UI. Think of them as special HTML elements so spy++ can't really see them. You can access these dialogs using nsIWindowMediator interface.

    These guys also looks like they automation firefox dialogs www.artoftest.com


  • ccote

    Hello,
    I'm have got the same problem and unfortunatly I tried with thunderbird that does'nt even work.
    So hava you found solution

  • manjuWicky

    Thank you for your proposition Smile

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