WebdriverIO & Browsermob - webdriver-io

Question

I'm currently trying to use Browsermob with WebdriverIO and I found this code on another answer, but when I run it, the firefox browser comes up and I see activity in the console windows I have selenium and browsermob-proxy running, but it does not go to the search.yahoo.com page. It just sits at a blank page and the tests ends (which says it passed, but that's something else)
I'm running the latest WebdriverIO and Browsermob on a Mac
Here's the code
var Proxy = require('browsermob-proxy').Proxy
, webdriverio = require('webdriverio')
, fs = require('fs')
, proxy = new Proxy()
;
proxy.cbHAR('search.yahoo.com', doWebio, function(err, data) {
if (err) {
console.error('ERR: ' + err);
} else {
fs.writeFileSync('stuff.har', data, 'utf8');
}
});
function doWebio(proxy, cb) {
var browser = webdriverio.remote({
host: 'localhost'
, port: 4444
, desiredCapabilities: { browserName: 'firefox', seleniumProtocol: 'WebDriver', proxy: { httpProxy: proxy } }
});
browser
.init()
.url("http://search.yahoo.com")
.setValue("#yschsp", "javascript")
.submitForm("#sf")
.end().then(cb);
}

Answer 1

have you tried using chrome. Maybe it'll work. To do so:
Add chromedriver from here to your /usr/bin
make change to above code like below (note upper case P in proxy)
start selenium server and browserMob as usual and run the test
desiredCapabilities: { browserName: 'chrome', seleniumProtocol: 'WebDriver', Proxy: { httpProxy: proxy } }

Answer 2

For those who come to this, with FireFox, you now need GeckoDriver installed to use FireFox with Selenium. https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
Also, the BrowserMob proxy hasn't had a release since 2016. The BrowserUp Proxy is an actively maintained drop-in replacement https://github.com/browserup/browserup-proxy with support up to Java 11, active development, brotli support, security fixes, and more.